The transatlantic slave trade was the largest mass deportation in history and a defining variable in the world economy of the 18th century. Millions of Africans were wrenched from their homes, deported to the American continent to be sold as slaves. A main cause of the trade was the colonies that European countries were beginning to develop. In America, a new colony of England, there was a need for many laborers for the sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations
