ECONOMICS
TRADE EXCHANGE AND INTERDEPENDENCE
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Question
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They needed labor for wheat and rice plantations.
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They needed labor for timber and cocoa plantations.
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They needed labor for cotton and tobacco plantations.
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They needed labor for sugarcane and coffee plantations.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did early Spanish & Portuguese settlers force African people to work as slaves in Latin America? They needed labor to help them mine for coal.
Detailed explanation-2: -To meet the mounting demand for labor in mining and agriculture, the Spanish began to exploit a new labor force: slaves from western Africa. Slavery was a familiar institution to many sixteenth-century Europeans.
Detailed explanation-3: -The labor of enslaved Africans was integral to the cultivation of the cane and production of sugar. Slaves toiled in the fields and the boiling houses, supplying the huge amounts of labor that sugar required.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sugar and Slavery The demand for sugar drove the transatlantic slave trade, which saw 10-12 million enslaved people transported from Africa to the Americas, often to toil on sugar plantations. This voyage was called the Middle Passage, and was notorious for its brutality and inhumaneness.
Detailed explanation-5: -Sugar planters in the Americas initially deployed the labor of enslaved American Indians as well as enslaved Africans and European indentured servants, but by the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, African slavery had become the dominant plantation labor system.