Now, new crops are being added to the European, Asian, and African diets (Adler and Pouwels 317). Unknowing to the farmers, they did not know they were buying the labor of African slaves. These slaves were also carrying diseases in their bloodstream. Attacks of fever caused by malaria infested parasites takes hold of North America (Grolle). The trading of slaves from the Old to New World was now known as the Atlantic Slave Trade. "From 1500 to 1880 about 12 million African slaves were transported to the Americas against their will. Such were the conditions that about 15% of them died during the journey"
Now, new crops are being added to the European, Asian, and African diets (Adler and Pouwels 317). Unknowing to the farmers, they did not know they were buying the labor of African slaves. These slaves were also carrying diseases in their bloodstream. Attacks of fever caused by malaria infested parasites takes hold of North America (Grolle). The trading of slaves from the Old to New World was now known as the Atlantic Slave Trade. "From 1500 to 1880 about 12 million African slaves were transported to the Americas against their will. Such were the conditions that about 15% of them died during the journey"