Question

Why did Spanish colonists begin to rely more heavily on the Atlantic slave trade by the mid-1500s?

Answer 1

Spanish legal restrictions and outbreaks of disease made it difficult to enslave indigenous populations

Answer 2

panish colonists began to rely more heavily on the Atlantic slave trade by the mid-1500s because Spanish legal restrictions and outbreaks of disease made it difficult to enslave indigenous populations.

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade entailed the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, primary to the Americas.

The slave trade turnt to the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage.