What was the primary economic motivation for the expansion of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to North America?
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Correct answer: The demand for large-scale labor to cultivate labor-intensive cash crops
Cash crops like tobacco, rice, and later indigo required constant, grueling labor that European indentured servants could not sustain in large numbers. Slavery provided a permanent and exploitable labor pool for plantation owners.
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