Answer to Question #321000 in History for cooper

Question

Was the Transatlantic slave trade shaped by the economic demands of the slave market or by the internal social dynamics of African societies?

Answer 1

The Transatlantic slave trade was shaped by the economic demands of the slave market. The expansion of plantation agriculture from Brazil into the Caribbean drove the expansion of the slave trade. By the end of the trade in the nineteenth century, more than eight out of every ten Africans taken in bondage to the Americas had disembarked (arrived) in either Brazil or the islands of the Caribbean.