With the opening of new lands in the Western Hemisphere European colonizers needed the workers to develop their land and increase income. The source was found in Western Africa, where during the ethnic conflicts many people became slaves. European ships loaded with goods headed to the African shores, where the goods traded in the "live goods", from where made the journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Here slaves were sold and the products produced by their labor were exported to Europe: tobacco, sugar, cotton, coffee and rum. It was a sort of triangular trade system. For getting the maximum profit slaves were placed in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, resulting the death of every sixthslave on the way. In this campaign participated
