Why Did the Slave Trade Grow?

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History Why do you think the slave trade grew? (10) The demand for sugar caused the slave trade to grow, for example in 1700 there were already over 500 coffee houses in London, and coffee and tea required lots of sugar to sweeten them. British people loved drinking tea and coffee, and the demand for these drinks grew in the 18th century. This caused the slave trade to grow, because more slaves were needed to meet the increasing demand for sugar. Another reason that the slave trade grew was because of the greed of the merchants, this was because of the fact that one journey of the triangular trade could set them up for life. A single merchant could make an equivalent profit of twenty million pounds in todays money, which is a very large sum of money which took only nine months to earn considering that nowadays the average salary is just twenty thousand pounds a year. This caused the slave trade to grow because of the increased amount of merchants who wanted to make the voyage of the triangular trade. So overall I think that the slave trade grew because of the increased demand for sugar in Britain and also Europe which meant that more slaves were needed to work on the sugar plantations. Also I think that the slave trade grew because of the fact that more and more merchants wanted to make the voyage of the triangular trade to set them up with more than enough money to live

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