The primary cause of the huge increase in the slave trade in the mid-1500s was that sugar became an important export. The demand for sugar in Europe surged, leading plantation owners in the Americas to seek a labor force to cultivate and harvest sugar cane. This resulted in an increased reliance on enslaved Africans to meet the labor needs of sugar plantations, driving the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade.
In the mid-1500s, there was a huge increase in the slave trade. What caused this?(2 points)
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Sugar became an important export.
Sugar became an important export.
People began to profit from selling Native Americans abroad.
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