Compare And Contrast Atlantic Slave Trade And American Colonization

282 Words2 Pages

Although both authors seemed to have similar concepts of the organization of slavery, what they did both strongly acknowledge was that slavery made the majority of the economic output from the Atlantic Trade System, which helped develop colonies that desperately needed a steady supply of ready made products and natural resources. Without that mass amount of imported slaves and their labor, America would not have developed at the pace it did. (Klein, 104)
Colonization:
When discussing the colonization of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Klein first points out that Africa was a relatively modest source of slaves until the 16th century when the Americas began to experience large influxes of European colonization which ultimately led to the need for

Open Document