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Why did the slave trade develop

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The colonist need workers to develop their sugar and tobacco business
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It started because the need for more workers on the sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations.

Step-by-step explanation:Slavery in America started in 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia

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