Answer: European demand for crops grown by American plantations
Explanation:
Europe´s Slave Trade developed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by taking enslaved people from western Africa to Europe and the Americas. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Slave Trade grew as many European colonies were established throughout the New World. By the late eighteenth century, the European demand for cash crops grown by American plantations, such as sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton, led to an increase in the demand for slaves to work.
