How did the Columbian Exchange affect the Atlantic slave trade?
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Correct answer: Millions of Native deaths created a labor vacuum Europeans filled with enslaved Africans
As Old World diseases decimated the indigenous workforce, European colonists turned to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to provide the massive amounts of labor required for sugar and tobacco plantations.
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