What drove the significant change in the slave trade between 1450 and 1750?
European societies stopped the practice of exiling
prisoners to their colonial territories.
Competition from agricultural communities of
indigenous people increased colonial plantation
owners' demand for enslaved laborers.
O It was less profitable for colonial plantation owners to
use indentured servants to grow cash crops.
Triangular trade encouraged a direct and profitable
exchange between North America and Africa, in which
enslaved people were traded for agricultural goods.