One argument a historian might make about the Atlantic slave trade is a <span>main cause of the trade was the colonies that European countries were starting to develop. In America, for instance, which was a colony of England, there was a demand for many labourers for the sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations.</span>
With a food surplus groups of nomads were able to settle in one location instead of moving from location to location following herds of animals or slash-and-burn farming.