The expansion of the transatlantic slave trade in the 1700s is best explained by which development? A) Great Britain's increasing dominance of the world trading economy B) Growth in European demand for new world agricultural products C) Growing shortages of labor in Europe D) Decrease in the coast of labor in Europe

Slavery was an accepted practice even before the emergence of the new world and in the New World slave trade increased rapidly. New World cash crops like tobacco, cotton, sugar etc had a great demand in the European market and this naturally increased the demand for labor in the plantations where these cash crops were cultivated.in order to meet the increasing demand for labor European colonies started depending on slave labor.

In the American colonies, slaves worked in the plantations of the south.

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Commonly called European American slave trade or Atlantic slave trade included the shipping of numerous African slave communities by the traders. It existed between the 16-19th century.

The correct answer is:

Option B. Growth in European demand for new world agricultural products.

This can be explained as:

This shipment of labourers to the New World is considered to be the most extensive human movement of all time.

This was majorly done to get the labour for the farming and industries as the population of the native population of the New World had declined rapidly.

The principal crops like cotton, tea, tobacco, cocoa, rubber, sugar etc. were in high need in the European nations and to meet this demand New World enslaved Africans.

Therefore, demand for the agricultural product in the European economy led to the transatlantic slave trade,

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