Question

who benefited from the slave trade why did America need slaves​

Answer 1

Answer:

Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation.

Explanation:

If the Confederacy had been a separate nation, it would have ranked as the fourth richest in the world at the start of the Civil War. The slave economy had been very good to American prosperity. By the start of the war, the South was producing 75 percent of the world’s cotton and creating more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. Slaves represented Southern planters’ most significant investment—and the bulk of their wealth.

Answer 2

Answer:the rich affluent whites

Explanation:

America then was a newly discovered country with no infrastructure at all. They required labourers to build up their ideal country for which they wanted man power without payin them any salary.Slaves therefore were  the most suitable . Bid slave trade centres were set up in the African and Arabian regions .