plantation farming of tropical cash crops such as sugar and pineapple required huge numbers of workers who labored long hours in hot climates. the need for labor in the Western Hemisphere turned slave trade into an industry.
English involvement in the slave trade was stimulated by the development of plantations in Jamaica.
Plantation farming of tropical cash crops.
they used slaves on Caribbean sugar plantations
they used slaves on Caribbean sugar plantations
West Africa
Slave families were separated, and members were sold to other plantations.
Brazil
Sugar Plantations
to sustain their plantations through slave trade with Africa
plantation farming of tropical cash crops such as sugar and pineapple required huge numbers of workers who labored long hours in hot climates. the need for labor in the Western Hemisphere turned slave trade into an industry.
Because the location of the slave trade centers in the south the slaves were able to provide the labor to produce the cotton.
The demand for sugarcane as a cash crop in the Americas led to the intense labor needs on plantations, prompting European colonizers to turn to the transatlantic slave trade to meet these demands. This resulted in the forced migration of millions of African slaves to work on sugarcane plantations, forming a crucial aspect of the Atlantic slave trade.