HEL Which was a reason for an increase in the transatlantic slave trade during the sixteenth century?

Question 9 options:

colonization of New England

the fur trade in Canada

the Spanish conquest of Mexico

sugar plantations in the West Indies

From the European point of view, slave labor was crucial for economic production and increasing wealth. The expansion of plantation agriculture from Brazil into the Caribbean drove the expansion of the slave trade.

Explanation:

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