SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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they needed slaves to work the sugar fields
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they needed slaves to build small cities
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they needed slaves to fight in their armies
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they needed slaves to assist with the fishing industry
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The last mass inflow of slaves took place in the nineteenth century and was mainly due to the huge expansion of coffee production in Brazil’s south-east. The demand for labour on coffee plantations was so large as to also lead to the relocation of extensive numbers of slaves from the rest of the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -Europeans enjoyed their sugar and were causing the inhumane Atlantic slave trade. The conditions for enslaved people on sugar plantations in the Caribbean were especially brutal. Driven by profits, plantations owners saw enslaved labor as a less expensive way to produce sugar.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the mid-nineteenth century, Brazil’s slaves were producing half the world’s coffee. By 1900, Brazil produced five times as much coffee as the rest of the world put together.