Was the slave trade so profitable because of the demand for slaves or the trade triangle?

because it was really profitable to harfet cotton now that it could be done eaiser and their aws such a growing demand that slaveowners were buying more land and slaves to make profit basically it put more slaves into bonage

Slavery made all crops MORE profitable. If you're talking about America, slaves were brought to the Caribbean to cut sugar cane in droves. This is probably the biggest crop using most slaves initially. Cotton became a big slave labor driven industry in the 19th century for several reasons. However, slaves were initially and primarily owned and used as domestic helpers in the Americas. Only once certain industrial processes were invented and began to be applied…

They paid less because of the triangle trade system, which involved slaves, molasses, and rum. The colonists would take the molasses from New England to Africa, where it would be traded for slaves. Then the slaves were taken to the West Indies where they were traded for rum. Finally, the rum was taken to New England and was traded for molasses. Although this method of gaining profit, merchants did it anyway because it was highly…

The cotton gin made cotton farming more profitable. Hence, cotton farming expanded, and more labor was needed.

The Slaves initially arrived in the Americas because of the slave triangle, this was where the Europeans, travelled to Africa and took the Slaves to America, after which they returned to Europe completing the triangle.

There was an increase in the demand for slaves in the early 19th century because of the increased population and farming industry.

Yes there were slaves in the New England States, but they weren't as popular as they were in the south because they were less profitable in the North because of winter accommodations and thing of that sort.

The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney and made cotton a much more profitable crop. Ten times the amount of cotton could be picked. Because of how profitable the cotton gin made cotton as a cash crop the demand for slaves continued. Eli Whitney said himself that he regretted the invention because of the increased demand for slave labor. The invention of the cotton gin was a major setback for the abolitionist movement. If…

The European has demand for slave it is because of the wines and guns that Africa gave them.

Because there they needed cheap labour.

It increased because it did!

The demand for slaves decreased drastically with the rise of the industrial revolution because it brought about devices such as the mechanical reaper/ harvester that decreased the need for man power.

The Slave Trade was incredibly profitable and incredibly cruel. It ripped families apart. People would come home from a hunt or from the fields and find their families missing. In some cases, entire villages were captured. The people in an entire village were rounded up and traded as slaves.

The cotton gin increased the demand for slaves.

the machine thAT increased the demand for slaves was the cotton gin

"Starting in the 16th century up into the 19th century, traders would take manufactured goods from Europe to Africa sell and buying slaves. They would take the slaves to the Americas and sell them there and buy cotton, sugar, rum and other items to take back to Europe. This was known as the slave triangle. Spirits are connected because selling the slaves in the Caribbean to buy Rum was one of the more profitable trades."

Because the climate would not support plantations, which made slavery profitable.

From the time of British rule of the American colonies to the time of the United States, slaves were used on cotton plantations. In 1860, the approximate slave population was four million.

It was invented to mechanically separate cotton fibers from their seeds, which until then had been done by hand by slaves. An unforseen effect was that it did not reduce the demand for slaves as might have been expected; on the contrary, it led to an explosive growth of cotton production and because of that, to an increase in the demand for slaves.

Because in America, they needed free labor because they were a newly discovered colonization.

Economically profitable investments

The southern states feared the outlawing of slavery because the slaves were they're profitable way of gaining money.

On first examination one might guess that slavery was wildly profitable. Free labor! However, most slavery was not profitable. Slaves had to be purchased, guarded, supervised, fed and clothed and housed (all minimally), and treated when sick. The plantation owner who was just starting out carried huge debts. Slaves cost money to maintain whether there was work or not. To make money at slavery: - They needed a willing market for their products (cotton, tobacco…

people had less slaves

Atlantic triangle is known as triangle trade. Triangle trade is the trade of slaves and rum.

The south had an economy built on cotton and slaves. Then when the cotton gin came into the picture the slaves were used less because of the gin worked faster than the slaves and so the demand in slaves dropped dramatically.

The Arab states in North Africa traditionally traded in slaves. But, when the demand for African slaves to work on the cotton and sugar cane plantations in America arose, the demand for slaves increased.

Yes. Rum was one of the key parts of the Triangle Trade in which slaves were one leg and rum another. Slaves were brought to the Carribean Islands where they worked the sugar plantations, which made rum which went to the colonies in exchange for goods that went to Europe and Africa to obtain more slaves. However, distilling rum later became colonial New England's largest and most profitable industry.

Indentured servants were more profitable than slaves.

Because it could process much greater amounts of short-staple cotton. To harvest the cotton, the planters wanted all the slaves they could get.

the triangle trade is when ships left from britai traded goods with africans for slaves then to them to America and the west indies and then sold the slaves for cotton and sugar

It made cotton production in the US more profitable, and ended up increasing the market for slaves. This drove up the value of slaves and ended up in more slavery.

The southern colonies were the only colonies that slave labor was actually profitable because they had a large amount of crops. The wealthy landownsers, who could buy several slaves, could house the slaves in their large plantation homes.

I am not sure, but there were 10- 12 million slaves were traded.

More farmers got the wretched idea to get slaves. It kept spreading farther and farther. The invention of the cotton gin also increased the demand for slaves to work in farms tending and harvesting the cotton.

It made it easier for slaves to remove seeds from cotton.

Cotton could be separated much faster. Cotton was in big demand. To keep up with demand, plantation owners planted more cotton (supply) requiring more slaves for the harvest.

Because they began to view slaves as the most important aspect of the African trade and by the 1500s, European participation had encouraged a much broader Atlantic slave trade, and it grew into a huge and profitable business to fill the need for cheap labor.

Many of the plantations that used slaves grew tobacco, a profitable crop back then.

The factories needed more raw cotton to make into cloth. More slaves were needed to grow and pick cotton because the demand for cotton increased.

It grew a lot and it grew because traders brought slaves to america and their was a high demand for it.

The growing demand for slaves led to an increase in the slave trade within the U.S.

It caused slavery to be more profitable. :)

They were demanding freedom for the black slaves.

declining death rates made slaves more profitable than indentured servants

The Southern colonies of the 13 American colonies were suited to large plantations that yielded cotton and tobacco. Both products were in high demand in Europe. Economy of scale created the most efficient way grow and harvest these crops. From the 1600's onward, slave traders provided the manpower required to field the plantations. They were inexpensive compared to paid American laborers, thus the demand was strong for imported slaves. The Portuguese and earlier, the Dutch…

The triangular trade affected slave trade by increasing the number of slaves available to be traded. Because there were more goods to trade for slaves and more ports being visited there were more slaves to trade. The triangle trade, however, resulted in more deaths of slaves before reaching their final destination as ships were so overcrowded with slaves.

growing rice required much labor,so the demand for slaves increased.

It was important because it was the stage in the Slave trade between Africa (where the slaves where collected) and America (where they were sold to plantation owners).

The colonist believed that they could compete economically with SC only if they were allowed to have slaves.