The Europeans explored and found that in west Africa they could trade their goods for slaves. They then traveled to America and other places to sell the slaves. The first arrival of slaves to North America was in 1502 when the slaves came from Spain.Because of the Europeans taking the slaves the slaves got to explore somewhere different than where they came from. Although they went somewhere new it was not somewhere that they wanted to be because they were treated poorly.They got to explore other cultures since they had to leave theirs in their country. The exploration was more for the Europeans who expanded and received more money. The exploration of slavery was "supposedly" needed because that was how the European colonies were able to grow economically.