Previous Knowledge of the Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Slave Trade

The Atlantic Slave Trade was the trading of slaves across the atlantic ocean. European's set up ports and centers in Africa where they could kidnap Africans from their homeland, ship them overseas to countries with a growing need for workers that can endure manual labor and sell them as slaves. A favorite trading spot for these slave-traders to sell their goods was the United States because of the growing of the cotton and indigo industries and their need for a cheap work force.
The Industrial Revolution was a period in time where many new advancements in technology led to increased production of goods and less strenuous manual labor for the workers. A good example of a technological improvement from the industrial revolution was the invention of the cotton gin. the cotton gin made the work of slaves on southern plantations much easier because it saved many long hours of dreary labor for the slaves, giving them more time to pick cotton as well as increase production. The cotton gin is just one of the many innovations that had a large impact on the economy and only one small part of the Industrial Revolution.