Why didn't they import African slaves to continental Europe

>>2690100
>serf
Even assuming that agriculture was a mistake, being a serf sounds better than a modern wagie.

They didn't care as much about demographics in the new world because they viewed it as a distant problem that someone in the future would have to deal with.

Pagan Europe had tons of slavery. Christendom did away with it. Serfdom was just a logical part of the social order at that time. Work for protection.

>forgetting smallpox
>forgetting famines
>forgetting high childbirth mortality meaning many would never get a wife

>>2690100
People who post these obviously biased shill-images to anywhere else than humor threads should be instantly banned.

>>2690180
>your post is biased[]
>because I said so

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>>2690100
>marry a little 17 yo virgin

>>2690180
y so mad, fren?

>>2690100
>17 year old
What the fuck would i want a washed up old hag for?

Lisboa was 15% niggers, actually

>>2690100
>Why didn't they import African slaves to continental Europe but did it in all of their colonies?
Except they did.

Arabs brought African slavery to Europe, not the Portuguese.

>Better still: why isn't there much slavery in Europe, but only alternatives like serfdom or stuff like it?
Assuming you mean 'back then', because mass/chattel slavery was only viable in high-volume cash-crop operations in the New World. Otherwise serfdom was preferable (up until the mid 16th century in most of Western Europe; obviously much later in Eastern Europe) because serfs feed and care for themselves. Owning slaves is actually a net loss, and was a 'luxury' only nobility could afford for a long time.

By the time of the industrial revolution, slave labor had mostly ceased to be profitable, and was only used where indentured servants were unavailable. In every case voluntary labor is more profitable than involuntary.

>>2690100
The Americas had a weather useful for cash crops that required 12-months-per-year hard farm work.

The Americas had a very low population density. Especially after most Native Americans died to flu and smallpox.

After the arrival of the first few slaves, Malaria, Yellow Fever and other mosquito-transmitted diseases rampaged throughout the Americas and became perennial due to also afflicting local fauna. Africans are very resistant to these diseases because of a mutation in their blood cells.