Leading Cause Of African American Slave Trade

The leading cause of the African American slave trade in the 15th- 19th centuries was that white skinned Europeans and African profited from the exploitation of slavery throughout the Americas, and Africa in which were used as workers that did the job white skinned people could not in the Americas in order to produce cheap materials for wealth and trade. The major effect of the African slave trade was that up to 12 million Africans were forced onto European slave ships and treated like cargo.

The first leading cause of slavery was the Industrial revolution. More people were around, and therefore they needed more food, which required more and more slaves, and they needed more clothing which required cotton, and to make cotton you needed lots,

and lots of people. The high demands could not have been met without the major help of slave labor in the fields. More work in the fields meant more hours for the slaves to work, some slaves could not take the constant work, lack of sleep, and unfortunately died. The death of the slaves then lead to needing more to get the jobs done.
The second leading cause of slavery was the white Europeans greed for money. The Europeans would ship over millions of African slaves, to do their dirty work for extremely low wages, and make money off it. The slaves were brought by the wealthy or those who could afford it and immediately put to work growing cotton and food plants. Not only did the Europeans benefit from the slave trade, but some Africans did as well because they could sell out their enemies to slave bidders, receive the money, and get rid of an unwanted person. The effect of these events was that they bought these slaves, simply to grow and make cotton and clothing.
Their need for labor is what made the Europeans bring 12 million slaves over, in small European ships, forced together. The Europeans needed these slaves to work outrageous hours to get the work they refused to do, done in the fields so they could take that cotton to make clothing. After the slaves grew the cotton in the fields, the cotton was turned into clothing and sold by the slave owner, in which they also received the money. This was the biggest effect of the Atlantic slave trade, because the amount of work give to the slaves, killed off most of them, leaving the Europeans to continue to bring more and more Africans over after they worked their last batch to death.