Why is understanding the Atlantic Slave Trade important? Help pls

slavery played a crucial role in the development of the modern world economy. Slaves provided the labor power necessary to settle and develop the New World.

Explanation:Slaves also produced the products for the first mass consumer markets: sugar, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and later cotton.

for starters, there is the structural trend of rising primary government expenditure as a share of gdp, which reached 36% in 2014, up from 22% in 1991. this increase reflected a political desire to address the poverty and inequality that had gone unaddressed during previous decades. to support the increase, brazil’s government increased taxes on consumption and promoted progress toward labor-market formalization. nonetheless, public investment, particularly in infrastructure, took a hit. in fact, with the exception of the 2005-2008 period, total investment as a share of gdp has remained below 20% since 1991.