Why did the spanish begin importing slaves from africa to work in the americas beginning in the 16th century

Africans were immune to some European diseases and experienced at european farming techniques. Apex

apartheid, (afrikaans: “apartness”) policy that governed relations between south africa's white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. people should not get this wrong. i was just answering a question.