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Why did the Atlantic slave trade grow in the Americas?
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because sugar plantation owners needed laborers
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because native people were unwilling to work in the fields
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because sugar plantation owners needed laborers
(Plantation agriculture—especially sugar—required large, cheap, and reliable labor forces; native populations had been drastically reduced by disease and resistance, so colonists turned to African slave labor.)
(Plantation agriculture—especially sugar—required large, cheap, and reliable labor forces; native populations had been drastically reduced by disease and resistance, so colonists turned to African slave labor.)
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