Question

How did the port cities of France owe their economic prosperity to the flourishing slave trade??please answer as quick as you can​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Europeans were reluctant to go and work in distant and unfamiliar lands meant a shortage of labour on the plantations . So this was met by a triangular slave trade btwn Europe , Africa and the Americans . The slave trade began in the seventeenth century. French merchants sailed from the bordeaux or nantes to the African coast , where they bought slaves of from local chieftains . Branded and shackled, the slaves were packed tightly into ships for the three month long voyage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. there they were sold to plantation owners.The exploitation of slave labour made it possible to meet the growing demand in European markets for sugar , coffee and indigo.port cities like Bordeaux and nantes owned there economic prosperity to the flourishing slave trade.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. The French colonies in the Caribbean - Martinique,  Guadeloupe and San Domingo - were important  suppliers of commodities such as tobacco, indigo,  sugar and coffee. But the reluctance of Europeans  to go and work in distant and unfamiliar lands  meant a shortage of labour on the plantations. So  this was met by a triangular slave trade between  Europe, Africa and the Americas.
2. The slave trade began in the seventeenth century.  French merchants sailed from the ports of  Bordeaux or Nantes to the African coast, where  they bought slaves from local chieftains. Branded  and shackled, the slaves were packed tightly into  ships for the three-month long voyage across the  Atlantic to the Caribbean. There they were sold  to plantation owners.
3. The exploitation of slave labour made it possible  to meet the growing demand in European  markets for sugar, coffee, and indigo. Port cities  like Bordeaux and Nantes owed their economic  prosperity to the flourishing slave trade.