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Hi, I need help with essay on The Atlantic Slave Trade. Paper must be at least 500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!The cotton pickers derived a state of independence in the pioneer upcountry South

Hi, I need help with essay on The Atlantic Slave Trade. Paper must be at least 500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

The cotton pickers derived a state of independence in the pioneer upcountry South Carolina, owing to a shortage of labor. The tobacco bands achieved their purpose in the Chesapeake from the small size of the productive units. The sugar workers derived independence throughout America on account of the need to harvest and rapidly grind the cane.

Thus, these three staple crops accounted for the attainment of some amount of independence by the slaves.

Eric Williams’ thesis is on Capitalism and Slavery. Eric Williams argues that industrial revolution was partly due to the fact that the profits earned from slavery were fundamental to Britain. He also argued that British industrialization was funded by Caribbean sugar plantations. This in turn accounted for slavery becoming an outdated mode of production. Williams powerfully concluded that the commercial capitalism of the eighteenth century developed the wealth of Europe by means of slavery and monopoly. But in so doing it helped to create the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century, which turned round and destroyed the power of commercial capitalism, slavery, and all it’s works. Without a grasp of these economic changes the history of the period is meaningless. He also argues that the slave trade and slavery were abolished as they were no longer profitable.

David Eltis has a thesis on Abolition of slave trade. He believes that particularly for the Atlantic region, similar to the British Empire, the slave trade did not expire naturally. Rather, it was killed when its significance to the Amrericas and to a lesser extent Europe was greater than at any point, in its history.

Their positions are opposed to each other. Eric William is of the view that the slavery ended as it was no longer profitable for the Americas. Whereas David Eltis argues that the slavery ended when the significance of the slavery grew beyond limits for the Americas and Europe.

View of David Eltis is more compelling. This is so because

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