The demand for labor in North America drove trade.
The transatlantic trade was the trade in which African slaves were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, to be used as labor in the plantations and primary economic productions that were developed there. Thus:
- European merchants bought slaves for trinkets in Africa and brought them to the colonies
- The colonies produced raw materials that were exchanged with the metropolis for manufactured goods.
This situation continued in the United States until the end of the Civil War, when slavery was abolished.
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