slave trade
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- The crops are growing rapidly, I don't think we have enough servants to keep up!
- Late 1400's
- Why didn't i think of that we shall make a trip
- I have an idea, we already make trade with Africa for their goods, why don't we just offer them our best weapons for trade of slaves "people" I'm sure that the kings will want our weapons they need them, they will not hesitate to trade salves!
- Trip to Africa
- I like what I see, these weapons will come to great use! We shall make the trade, how many people do you need?!
- We come to make trade for salves, we will trade our best weapons for them.
- Leaving with Africa
- Who are they? why do we have to leave with them? What about my family?
- You are our property now, we made trade of our weapons to your king and he traded you in return. You work for us now!
- During the late 1400's Tabaco, cotton, and sugar cane were the crops growing in the new colonies. Even though the economy was growing their were not enough servants to be able to keep up with the intensive growth of these crops.
- Due to many diseases a lot of the servants die. this led Europeans to look at Africa as some type of hope to continue the growth of crops, they went and offered goods such as weapons and rum to African Kings, somehow they new that they would not hesitate to make slave trade.
- That's how the Atlantic Slave Trade came to be. Many African Kings didn't care to make human trade for weapons!
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