Before the Civil war and the disagreements with the South, the slave trade was alive and well in New England. The slave trade was dominated by the maritime industry. Rhode Island was responsible for more than half of all of the early US slave trade.
They had financial benefits and slaves were a good trade commodity.
New England merchants benefited from the slave trade by trading rum and other goods for enslaved Africans in West Africa and then selling these enslaved individuals in the Caribbean and the southern colonies of British North America. The profits from this trade helped to fuel the growth of industries such as shipping, manufacturing, and finance in New England.
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Farms were not a popular means of livelihood in the new England colonies, hence slavery was frowned upon.
Fishing, ship building, and the slave trade
In the days of slavery, this trading pattern was called the Triangle Trade. Molasses from the Caribbean was shipped to New England where it was made into rum. Rum from New England was sold to slave traders on the African Coast for slaves. African slaves were sold in the Caribbean for molasses.
the new world is the world that Columbus discovered for the Europeans. If it was not for the new world the slave trade could have easily died out.
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African merchants played a role in facilitating the Atlantic slave trade by capturing and selling individuals from rival ethnic groups to European slave traders in exchange for goods like firearms and textiles. This trade was often driven by intertribal conflict and the desire to gain power and resources.
The shipping hub of trade was in New England.
Slaves were not taken to New England and there was no slavery in New England. The largest slave market was in Charleston South Carolina.