I need 6 causes of the atlantic slave trade. Please help me!!!?

Answer 1

okay first really read the Encarta passage (where I got two of the answers)the answers because if your teacher asks you where you got em or why the causes were SO important you won't know! Also anytime you have a history paper or anything history,science or political go to Encarta!!! IT has saved me hours of fact finding time!I couldn't find the rest but they should be in your text book! good luck.
a)Spread of the Plantation System
b)Africans as the Labor Source

Answer 2

Economics, it is far cheeper to enslave someone rather than pay them. Convienence, if your going to Africa for supplies why not pick up a few slaves while your there. Laziness or a bad attitude, why should I get dirty and sweaty working hard on something a slave could do?Greed, work goes much faster when you have more people doing it. Climate, it was much more difficult for the european folks to work in the warmer climate of the "new world", and heck it's cooler in the "new world" for them than Africa was. Economicks again, when I am done with the slaves I can sell them to someone else, or if I buy a boy and a girl slave then they might mate and have a baby that in a few years could be sold and I get my investment on the kids parents back.

Answer 3

Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade

http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/

http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/aframhc.html

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slaveship.htm

http://www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/slave_routes/slave_routes_unitedkingdom.shtml

http://www.hotwells.freeserve.co.uk/slavetrade.html

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~rstephen/livingeaston/local_history/slavery.html

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/africa_caribbean/britain_trade.htm

http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/

http://cghs.dadeschools.net/slavery/index.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/collections/alabama/history.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/journey/american_connection/alabama/bulloch_liverpool.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1523100.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2408889

Good luck.

Kev, Liverpool, England

Answer 4

*free labor
*decline in indigenous (Indians) populations
*essential in settling of America
*enabled Europeans to take foreign peoples & forcibly resettle them in colonies as slaves
*exploitation of peoples who are diffferent
*demand for textiles
*punishment of African criminals
*politics, greed, power
*money for Arabs selling blacks
*money for blacks selling war prisoners
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Answer 5

Don't forget that neighboring African tribes took people from each other and sold them into slavery.