USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -With ideal climate and available land, property owners in the southern colonies began establishing plantation farms for cash crops like rice, tobacco and sugar cane-enterprises that required increasing amounts of labor.

Detailed explanation-2: -Men, women and children were separated, families being torn apart. Overcrowding, poor diet, dehydration and disease led to high death rates. 450, 000 of the 3.4 million Africans transported in British ships died on the Atlantic crossing.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -1.4) How did the development of cash crops in the Southern colonies encourage the trade in enslaved peoples? Cash crops required more labor, so plantation owners turned to enslaved people as a labor force.

Detailed explanation-5: -Growing more cotton meant an increased demand for slaves. Slaves in the Upper South became incredibly more valuable as commodities because of this demand for them in the Deep South. They were sold off in droves. This created a Second Middle Passage, the second largest forced migration in America’s history.