Colonial leaders turned to cash crops such as tobacco and especially sugar, produced by slaves imported from africa. After initial experiments with indian labor, for reasons we will later examine, the african workers could never come close to re producing their numbers. So increasing numbers of europeans and later, white americans could consume sugar, coffee, rice and tobacco.
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.