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Which nation began the large scale importation of enslaved Africans into the New World?

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Beginning in the 16th century with the Spanish, then the Portuguese, French, and Dutch, Europeans began systematically kidnapping and enslaving large numbers of West Africans, and transporting them to the American colonies for sale.

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