The Atlantic slave trade began as a way for white farmers and plantation owners to get cheap labor off of African Americans. Because at first they had originally targeted the Native Americans. But many of them escaped and others resisted. They were able to escape because they had already knew the land, so they knew the best ways to escape from the white man. So white people had to fan out and find someone who they could get labor off of without fear of escape. The only downfall is that they would have to travel far and wide to foreign continents. So eventually they found Africans who often viewed them as cannibals who would only come to take more people away. While on board many salves would jump over bored, starved themselves, and committed
