How Did The Transatlantic Slave Trade Develop And Evolve From The 1500 S-1700

How Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade develop and evolve from the 1500’s-1700? What major powers and resources were involved at different times? The Transatlantic Slave trade began after the Columbian Exchange took place bringing forth crops such as sugar, maize, and potatoes to the New World. Which lead to a high demand of labor forces. Originally the Native Americans were enslaved, but because they were not use to the diseases that they came in contact with most of them died out. Therefore the Europeans started enslaving African which they kidnapped from West Africa. During the 1520s Portugal and Spain hired traders to ship Africans to places such as Brazil and Mexico. When the English people entered the slave trade in the 1560s, they