The people needed slaves. So the popularity of slave trading grew higher. The people who were selling the slaves would earn a lot for a single slave piece. That also made the popularity higher. African Americans were just thought as the owner's property. During the trips to sell the slaves, more than 100 died on board or on water.
Earning greater profits caused slave owners to trade their slaves. This affected condititions on the Middle Passage because it became a terrifying and deadly journey that could last for more than 2 or 3 months.
The international slave trade ended APEX
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What caused the slave population in the Chesapeake colonies to grow?
They didn't have slaves there.
The growth of trade in europe caused towns to grow by markets
Slave trade grew due to the increasing demand for cheap labor in colonies and plantations in the Americas. European powers engaged in the exploitation of African individuals as part of their imperialistic expansion and economic interests. The profitability of the transatlantic slave trade also fueled its expansion.
Slaves formed families and had children.
Slaves formed families and had children.
Slaves formed families and had children.
Slaves formed families and had children.
The slave trade was a triangle. First finished goods where made in Europe. Then those good were transported to Africa to be traded for tribes prisoners of war. The prisoners are then sent to the Americas to be used to grow raw materials to be shipped to Europe to be made into finished goods. The goods would then to to Africa and the slave trade would begin again. The slave trade is also know as the Triangle trade as the trade followed a triangular pattern.