Why was the slave trade started in the colonies? 100 POINTS

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Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, from 1526 to 1776, developed from complex factors, and researchers have proposed several theories to explain the development of the institution of slavery and of the slave trade. Slavery strongly correlated with Europe's American colonies' demand for labor, especially for the labor-intensive plantation economies of the sugar colonies in the Caribbean, operated by Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic. Slave-ships of the Atlantic slave trade transported captives for slavery from Africa to the Americas.

beacuse the rich planters in the colonies  needed  workers  who were not free

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