SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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sugar and tobacco
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wheat and barley
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cotton
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corn and beans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Plantation agriculture led to the transatlantic slave trade: Most enslaved Africans worked on large commercial agricultural plantations that produced cash crops like sugar and tobacco.
Detailed explanation-2: -Moreover, slave labor did produce the major consumer goods that were the basis of world trade during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: coffee, cotton, rum, sugar, and tobacco.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following represents a significant change in Africa between 1450 C.E. and 1750 C.E.? Most enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic instead of the Sahara.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the period 1450 to 1750, the legal rights of slaves in Africa and the method of capturing and selling them remained constant; however, there were significant changes in the amount of slaves sold because of the increased European demand, and chattel slavery was introduced to the Americas.