Spanish America with more slavery

What if the Spanish authorities had allowed/encouraged slavery and the importation of slaves to the extent that the British and Portuguese empires did? Which parts of Spanish America would be most ripe for large scale plantations? Which parts would be majority black today?
 
What if the Spanish authorities had allowed/encouraged slavery and the importation of slaves to the extent that the British and Portuguese empires did? Which parts of Spanish America would be most ripe for large scale plantations? Which parts would be majority black today?

Venzuela comes to mind. And the Antilles, of course.
 
None would be majority.

The problem with importing slaves is the tasks that labour is needed for in Spanish America, mining and tropical plantations, are extremely unhealthy and anti-family and would generate a constant population loss amongst the slaves.

The only part of the Americas that have large black populations are those where conditions were survivable enough to see slave population growth (American subtropical and temperate plantation and parts of Brazil), or where there was no other population base (the Caribbean). Neither of those conditions would occur in any part of Spanish South America; slaves would be worked to death and outgrown by the free locals.
 
None would be majority.

The problem with importing slaves is the tasks that labour is needed for in Spanish America, mining and tropical plantations, are extremely unhealthy and anti-family and would generate a constant population loss amongst the slaves.

The only part of the Americas that have large black populations are those where conditions were survivable enough to see slave population growth (American subtropical and temperate plantation and parts of Brazil), or where there was no other population base (the Caribbean). Neither of those conditions would occur in any part of Spanish South America; slaves would be worked to death and outgrown by the free locals.

How is Jamaica or Haiti so different from Cuba? Or the Guyanas so different from Colombia and Venezuela?
 

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The Spaniards tended to use slavery quite a lot for mining in areas where the native workforce was scarce. As for more plantations, Spain lacked slave ports in Africa, in fact they bought their slaves first from the Portuguese, and later from the French and the British. With them having to import slaves from other powers, they couldn't create as many plantation colonies, but instead tended to create them in the most profitable areas in their empire, like for example Cuba.
 
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