1. The Triangular Slave Trade
As the above figures suggest, slavery and the slave trade were the linchpins of this process. ... To pose the question differently, why slavery, and why were the slaves carried across the Atlantic exclusively African? ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. But if Africans, aided by tropical pathogens, were able to resist the potential invaders, some Africans were prepared to sell slaves to Europeans for use in the Americas. ... Without this dissonance, there would have been no African slavery in the Americ...
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