America's Voyage To The Middle Passage

This trade began when Europeans settled in America in the search of copper and gold. The settlers wanted slaves in the Caribbean islands because the Spanish had large sugar plantations and the English had tobacco and cotton plantations. So they demanded slaves to do the hard work. They could have used Americans as slaves but many of them died from European diseases. This new market was inspired in the successful voyage to India and the establishment of sugar plantations on Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verde Islands and rather than trading slaves back to Muslim merchants, there was an emerging market for agricultural workers on the plantations.
The trip to the Americas was known as the Middle Passage. Slaves were chained together tightly into