Liverpool, as well as Bristol, were important because they were seaside towns, which meant they had docks. They were the first places the slaves ships would go after selling their slaves in america. When their ships were docked, the crew would clean out the slaves living area. It was the last stop in the triangular trade.
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The major growth in the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century was to be driven by the expansion of New World exports to Europe.
Portugal, which played an important role in both the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as well as the Asian Slave Trade, always used slaves for economic reasons. They originally used slaves as a medium of trade.
The reason why the triangular trade was so important is beacause of what happend during the time of what was going on.
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The African slave trade started in the 1500's because of the need for laborers in Spain's American Empire.