Slave Trade
The labor-intensive agriculture of the New World demanded a large workforce. Thus by end of the seventeenth century, the North Atlantic trade of sugar was the number one commodity at the time. Hence the driving force for slave trade and expansion of the plantation system. Sugar was on the rise as one of the most popular commodities due to prominent demand. Thus supplying the wings to the start of the plantation economy.
In the seventeenth century, the Portuguese made a discovery of sugar production which introduced the North Atlantic slave trade. A vast rise for the commodity of sugar began to soar as a popular consumer …show more content…
The commodity causing an uprise of a massive labor force called for a demand of slave labor. The reasoning for slave labor was due to the endless supply of slaves as well as all companies served to have a slave base similar to a stock. This being said this was one of the biggest forced migrations in all of human history. (Class Notes Feb 16) African slaves were brought across the Atlantic within a decade of Columbus’s voyages. African slaves being preferred at this time due to lower death rate and the enhancement of technological and agricultural skills. Sugar at this point has become an economically efficient. Accompanying a direct correlation of sugar to the slave trade is the reliance on slavery. This reliance was directly seen in the inequality in Africans significantly outnumbered those of European descent in the Caribbean region. As well slaves have become a cash product which then increased the acceptance of human labor as a commodity after the sixteenth century. The seventeenth century displayed an increased reliance within African states on slavery and labor coercion. In conclusion sugar showing a direct reliance on the prosperity of the slave
The labor-intensive agriculture of the New World demanded a large workforce. Thus by end of the seventeenth century, the North Atlantic trade of sugar was the number one commodity at the time. Hence the driving force for slave trade and expansion of the plantation system. Sugar was on the rise as one of the most popular commodities due to prominent demand. Thus supplying the wings to the start of the plantation economy.
In the seventeenth century, the Portuguese made a discovery of sugar production which introduced the North Atlantic slave trade. A vast rise for the commodity of sugar began to soar as a popular consumer …show more content…
The commodity causing an uprise of a massive labor force called for a demand of slave labor. The reasoning for slave labor was due to the endless supply of slaves as well as all companies served to have a slave base similar to a stock. This being said this was one of the biggest forced migrations in all of human history. (Class Notes Feb 16) African slaves were brought across the Atlantic within a decade of Columbus’s voyages. African slaves being preferred at this time due to lower death rate and the enhancement of technological and agricultural skills. Sugar at this point has become an economically efficient. Accompanying a direct correlation of sugar to the slave trade is the reliance on slavery. This reliance was directly seen in the inequality in Africans significantly outnumbered those of European descent in the Caribbean region. As well slaves have become a cash product which then increased the acceptance of human labor as a commodity after the sixteenth century. The seventeenth century displayed an increased reliance within African states on slavery and labor coercion. In conclusion sugar showing a direct reliance on the prosperity of the slave