1860

DADE, Florida

Slave Trade, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Slavery

Slave Trade Understanding the economic standards for growth in the new world at the time can help one understand the importance of the slave trade. There was a constant demand for slaves because they were vital to the stability of their individual plantations. "Slavery shaped the economic growth of the lower South in the eighteenth century " (Rosenbloom 1999). These individual slaves were not looked...