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How and why did the slave trade become established?

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The Atlantic slave trade was the result of, among other things, labour shortage, itself in turn created by the desire of European colonists to exploit New World land and resources for capital profits.

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it first started out as indentured slaves where peiple would want to work for other people i return for land ,but then whites started discriminating blacks and became a law for blacks to become slaves

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