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The slave trade was all about commerce where business could make maximum profits from the smallest investments. Labor usually accounts for a very large part of expenditures so free (slave labor) or cheap labor from impoverished societies is always a more lucrative option for commercial exploitation.
The most important reason that the slave trade thrived was economic; the shipping companies and slave dealers made money in obtaining and selling slaves, and the slave owners used slaves as a "free" labor force to earn money for themselves.
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First. some of the northern states were also slave states. Second, much of the slave trade and slave ships were operated by Northerners. Finally, the north purchased tobacco and cotton that were produced by slave labor.
Benin, Africa was devastated by the slave trade- most came from there.
The effects of the slave trade depended on which side you were on. If you were the slave owner, the slave trade had the effect of providing a cheap labor force to increase production and sales. The slave trade itself provided a business opportunity in the direct sale of this low cost labor force. The growth of the cotton industry and that of many of other agricultural commodities would not have been possible without slave labor. If you were the slave, it had many devastating effects. Slaves had limited free will. They were separated from their families and often forced to work in harsh conditions. The treatment of the slaves depended on their owner. Some were treated better than others.
For the money and the slave labor; the same reason everyone else participated in the slave trade.
The slave trade was all about commerce where business could make maximum profits from the smallest investments. Labor usually accounts for a very large part of expenditures so free (slave labor) or cheap labor from impoverished societies is always a more lucrative option for commercial exploitation.
The most important reason that the slave trade thrived was economic; the shipping companies and slave dealers made money in obtaining and selling slaves, and the slave owners used slaves as a "free" labor force to earn money for themselves.
Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
Free labor.
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They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
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The slave trade can be classified as a system of human trafficking and exploitation where individuals were forcibly taken from their homes and sold as property to work under harsh conditions. It was a form of forced labor that dehumanized and oppressed millions of people.
Slavery and a slave trade DID NOT begin in the 1500s it was the norm since prehistory.