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Originally, transatlantic slaves were mostly used for mass-producing the sugar cane plantations that dominated the market. Spain also used them for silver mining/processing during the great silver drain. New England colonies eventually used slaves for tobacco farming after tobacco prices fell and indentured servants became less profitable. They were also used for cotton farming and other crops in the South in the years leading up to the civil war.
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How were the transatlantic slaves treated?
Atrociously.
How did Columbus begin the transatlantic slave trade?
He brought slaves to Spain from the Caribbean
How did the transatlantic slave trade work?
It is easier to look at one product: sugar cane. Slaves would cut down sugar cane (a very hard work), the cane was processed into sugar and molasses. The molasses was sent to new England and processed into rum. The rum was traded for slaves in Africa. (The people who were selling them were other Africans.) This increased the demand for more rum and increased the demand for more slaves to grow more sugar cane. Cotton and tobacco also required more slaves to make tobacco and cotton.
Who were the great majority of slaves on the southern plantations?
Laborers
How Long Did Slaves Work For?
Slaves would work from sunrise to twilight for their entire lives
