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The major growth in the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century was to be driven by the expansion of New World exports to Europe.
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Portugal, which played an important role in both the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as well as the Asian Slave Trade, always used slaves for economic reasons. They originally used slaves as a medium of trade.
It increased because of white people's demand. Most people today because of white guilt try to use the stock argument that "Africans sold Africans so Africans are responsible for what whites did" that's bullshit.The atlantic slave trade and any other slave trade is a DEMAND DRIVEN MARKET.
To trade more and be more powerful
Slavery and a slave trade DID NOT begin in the 1500s it was the norm since prehistory.
When the Arab slave trade and the Atlantic trade began, many local slave systems changed and began supplying captives for slave markets outside of Africa.
Spanish legal restrictions and outbreaks of disease made it difficult to enslave indigenous populations.
No, it was from the western countries.
In the 1400s and 1500s, more slaves were sold between African countries than across the Atlantic. In the 1600s, more slaves were sold across the Atlantic. (apex)
slaves hence the name Atlantic SLAVE trade
1500s to 1600s
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.
Spanish legal restrictions and outbreaks of disease made it difficult to enslave indigenous populations.
In the 1400s and 1500s, more slaves were sold between African countries than across the Atlantic. In the 1600s, more slaves were sold across the Atlantic. (apex)
In the 1400s and 1500s, more slaves were sold between African countries than across the Atlantic. In the 1600s, more slaves were sold across the Atlantic. (apex)
Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.