SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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As demand increased, fewer Africans were captured for trade
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As demand grew, more Africans were captured for trade
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As demand grew, people looked to other continents to find slave labor
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As demand grew, more people advocated for the rights of enslaved Africans
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Detailed explanation-1: -As the demand for slaves increased with European colonial expansion in the New World, rising prices made the slave trade increasingly lucrative.
Detailed explanation-2: -The effect of slavery in Africa Some states, such as Asante and Dahomey, grew powerful and wealthy as a result. Other states were completely destroyed and their populations decimated as they were absorbed by rivals. Millions of Africans were forcibly removed from their homes, and towns and villages were depopulated.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to John K. Thornton, Europeans usually bought enslaved people who were captured in endemic warfare between African states. Some Africans had made a business out of capturing Africans from neighboring ethnic groups or war captives and selling them.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Atlantic slave trade contributed to the activity of many provision and redistribution markets, and enabled the creation of large fortunes that were invested in highly diverse activities and forms of consumption.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Atlantic slave trade from Africa to the New World might well have been the largest maritime migration in history. The reason for this maritime movement was to obtain labour as the indigenous population of the New World had declined rapidly because of its lack of immunity against imported pathogens.