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Why did the Atlantic slave trade grow in the Americas?

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because sugar plantation owners needed laborers

because sugar plantation owners needed laborers - no response given

because native people were unwilling to work in the fields

because native people were unwilling to work in the fields - incorrect

because Catholic missions needed many laborers

because Catholic missions needed many laborers - no response given

because Europeans could not do field work

because Europeans could not do field work - no response given
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because sugar plantation owners needed laborers

Explanation: Large, labor‑intensive plantations (especially sugar, also tobacco and cotton) created high demand for workers. Native populations declined from disease and resistance, and European colonists wouldn’t supply that labor, so planters increasingly turned to enslaved Africans via the Atlantic slave trade.