The expansion of the transatlantic slave trade in the 1700s is best explained by which development? a) great britain's increasing dominance of the world trading economy b) growth in european demand for new world agricultural products c) growing shortages of labor in europe d) decrease in the coast of labor in europe

Commonly called European American slave trade or Atlantic slave trade included the shipping of numerous African slave communities by the traders. It existed between the 16-19th century.

The correct answer is:

Option B. Growth in European demand for new world agricultural products.

This can be explained as:

Therefore, demand for the agricultural product in the European economy led to the transatlantic slave trade,

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B) Growth in European demand for new world agricultural products

Explanation:

Slavery was an accepted practice even before the emergence of the new world and in the New World slave trade increased rapidly. New World cash crops like tobacco, cotton, sugar etc had a great demand in the European market and this naturally increased the demand for labor in the plantations where these cash crops were cultivated.in order to meet the increasing demand for labor European colonies started depending on slave labor.

In the American colonies, slaves worked in the plantations of the south.

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