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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan Lanni" data-source="post: 219025" data-attributes="member: 14629">Just watch an old rerun about this subject on the PBS 1st year series &quot;Connections&quot; on Netflix.Basically, the industrial revolution was taking hold in Europe and in particular, in the UK. Individual Brits were becoming more affluent which drove the demand for goods. Individual Brits saw opportunity for great profits and created their vast colonial empire. To feed the need for cheap labor, they acquired black slaves from warring/rival black tribes in Africa&nbsp; --&gt; black slave trade industry.Well, about that time the earlier US colonies were getting established and looking for ways to develop their industries, for independence from the UK but just as important to generate much needed revenue by supplying products to Britain. This worked hand-in-glove, because not only did the Brits view US colonies as their own, but many US colonists though that way too. It was a natural progression for the UK Brits to initially supply the US colonies slaves to facilitate their production efforts. The US colonists then acquired their own slaves and the slave trade industry in the US developed from there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nathan Lanni, post: 219025, member: 14629"] Just watch an old rerun about this subject on the PBS 1st year series "Connections" on Netflix. Basically, the industrial revolution was taking hold in Europe and in particular, in the UK. Individual Brits were becoming more affluent which drove the demand for goods. Individual Brits saw opportunity for great profits and created their vast colonial empire. To feed the need for cheap labor, they acquired black slaves from warring/rival black tribes in Africa --> black slave trade industry. Well, about that time the earlier US colonies were getting established and looking for ways to develop their industries, for independence from the UK but just as important to generate much needed revenue by supplying products to Britain. This worked hand-in-glove, because not only did the Brits view US colonies as their own, but many US colonists though that way too. It was a natural progression for the UK Brits to initially supply the US colonies slaves to facilitate their production efforts. The US colonists then acquired their own slaves and the slave trade industry in the US developed from there. [/QUOTE]

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