plantation farming of tropical cash crops such as sugar and pineapple required huge numbers of workers who labored long hours in hot climates. the need for labor in the Western Hemisphere turned slave trade into an industry.
English involvement in the slave trade was stimulated by the development of plantations in Jamaica.
Plantation farming of tropical cash crops.
they used slaves on Caribbean sugar plantations
they used slaves on Caribbean sugar plantations
Brazil
Sugar Plantations
West Africa
Slave families were separated, and members were sold to other plantations.
The central purpose of the slave trade was to exploit enslaved individuals for forced labor, primarily in agricultural and industrial sectors, to generate economic profit for slave traders and slave owners. It was driven by the demand for cheap labor to support the expansion of European colonies and industries.
to sustain their plantations through slave trade with Africa
plantation farming of tropical cash crops such as sugar and pineapple required huge numbers of workers who labored long hours in hot climates. the need for labor in the Western Hemisphere turned slave trade into an industry.
Because the location of the slave trade centers in the south the slaves were able to provide the labor to produce the cotton.