Question

Port cities like Bordeaux and Nantes owed their economic prosperity to the flourishing slave trade. Comment.

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Explanation:

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.