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Content: The English began controlling the land that the Native Americans had used for hunting and farming. Atlantic slave trade
Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
triangular trade
European trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe involving slaves and other goods
middle passage
Voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and the
Americas
Why were slaves brought to the
Americas? African people were brought to the Americas as slaves as enslaved labor force replacing the the Natives. They were replacing the Natives because they were dying to European diseases like small pox. The African people were stronger and healthier. How did some African rulers participate in the slave trade? African rulers had a major role in the slave trade. They benefited from the slave trade by capturing control of the slave trade. They Bring people inland and transport them to the coast to sell to European traders. What was the triangular trade?