The primary reason that Spain abolished the slave trade is that the colonies that it would have brought those slaves to had become independent countries. Additionally, the earlier British abolition of slavery led the British to patrol the Atlantic and free slaves en route to the Americas and the British Navy was much stronger than the Spanish fleet by the mid 1800s.
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Middle Passage was the name of the slaves journey from Africa to the colonies of the new world.
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Spain made money from its colonies by trading resources. Spain was very dominant in the New World era with the Spanish colonization lasting over 400 years.
Because other Africans sold them to the Europeans as slaves and the new world colonies needed workers.
Christopher Columbus made four trips to the New World. Reportedly the Native Americans he took back with him to Spain volunteered for the trip. The purpose of bringing Native Americans back to Spain was to show the monarchy the type of peoples that inhabited this New World.
Europeans imported slaves to America to work the fields. They did not bring slaves over to give them freedom in the New World.
Unlike making a phone call or sending a text over the telephone, there is no cost to sending an email anywhere in the world.
Spain controlled most of the colonies and the shipping routes
Spain controlled most of the colonies and the shipping routes
Spain controlled most of the colonies and the shipping routes