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This 14 page paper discusses the slave trade in the Caribbean, and what the impact was when it ended. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in the Caribbean as well. This paper discusses Caribbean slave life, why it existed, its impact on the economic, social and political life of the area, and how those factors
changed when it was abolished. Reasons for the Slave Trade The most basic reason for trading in slaves was economic, and easy to understand: the islands of the West
Indies were scarcely populated, and the manpower shortage meant there was no one to work the plantations. The answer was as obvious as it was terrible: slaves. While there may
have been a secondary motive of "giving Africans the opportunity to become Christian," this doesnt really seem likely; it is far more realistic that slaves were brought to the Caribbean
for economic reasons, not religious ones (Baykudoglu). Thus, "between 1450 and 1850 at least 12 million African slaves, a third of them women, sailed via the Red Sea, the Sahara
and East Africa, to colonies mainly in North America, South America and the West Indies. The British merchants, alone, transported almost 3 million Africans between 1700 and 1810" (Baykudoglu). The
slave trade was very beneficial to Britain, which carried it out along with France, Spain and Portugal, "through the crossing known as the Middle Passage and in the triangular, Britain-Africa-West
Indies-Britain route, called the transatlantic slave trade" (Baykudoglu). The traders sold slaves to plantation owners "in the West Indies, the Southern colonies of America (Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia)"; the
slaves produced goods such as coffee, indigo and cotton, which were then shipped back to Britain (Baykudoglu). Once there, they were then "manufactured or refined and then either sold domestically
or re-exported at a vast profit to the merchants" (Baykudoglu). Slavery also benefited the British public, because as the size of the plantations grew and the number of slaves increased,
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