The atlantic slave trade: what spurred (or prompted) the growth of the slave trade in the americas?

The need of labor in plantations in the Spanish and British colonies as a consequence of the great mortality of the local Native Americans wiped out by Old World's diseases they had no immune defense for. These plantations produced commodities in high demand in Europe such as sugar, tobacco and cotton. Even though slavery had ben abolished in Europe by the Catholic Church as early as the sixth century, the chances of becoming rich by means of producing the above mentioned crops were so high that even the Church overlooked this highly immoral practice.

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

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