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What role did the atlantic slave trade play within the Europian compitition during the colonial Era?

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The slave trade then expanded across the Atlantic as European colonies demanded an ever-increasing number of workers for the extensive plantations growing the labor-intensive crops of tobacco, sugar, and eventually rice and cotton.
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