How Did Spain Influence The Slave Trade

Additionally, the large spike in African slaves being imported to Spain and Britain is due to how both countries had periods of time in which they dominate the slave trade in the Atlantic Ocean. In the 16th century, Spain is one of the two powers that dominates the Atlantic slave trade (Chattel Slavery, Slide 2), making it easier for them to have access to African traders. Consequently, during that time that sugar plantations were flourishing in the Canaries and silver mining were spreading in Central and South America, it was not difficulties for viceroys to import in African slaves. However, due to the large influx of silver from Mexico and Peru, it caused inflation in the financial market of Europe, especially in Spain (Chattel Slavery slide 1). By the 17th century, the Dutch has control of the slave trade, which started to send ships with slaves to North America to trades (Colonial Timeline, page 3).
The British became heavily dependent on the inexpensive labor of Africans due to large cultivation of sugar, tobacco, and rice. By 18th century, they dominated the slave trades. Slaves became more expensive for other European nations, such as the Spanish or the Portuguese, who also need African slaves to thrive. As a result, Africans in British colonies outnumber the English by ratios of at least two to one (Colonial America 1607-1750, Section 2). More African slaves were captured and sent to plantations in Virginia and South Carolinas, and colonists do not need to worry about compensations for their white servants or worry about lack of workers as indigenous populations decreases due to diseases that were in the Columbian