The Transatlantic Slave Trade was the trade of goods and slaves between Brazil, North America, Spanish America and the Caribbean. The main item imported and exported was sugar. After tasting sugar the rest of the world wanted it. Although sugar is sweet, it is not the easiest plant to develop. By this time sugar is in very high demand which causes the Portuguese to look for more land to grow it. Sugar plants grew well in swampy areas, which caused the Portuguese to drain the swamps and began to grow the sugar plants. Only problem was every time they put a group of slaves in the swamp, other than Africans, they all died and never got the job done. When they put a group of Africans in and they cleared the swamp. Most of them died but all of them
