The slave trade had long-lasting negative effects on the islands of the Caribbean. The indigenous peoples, the Arawaks, were largely wiped out by European diseases, violence, starvation and ...

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade ... of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and the corresponding ...

Concerning the trade on this Coast ... But after the voyages of Columbus, slave traders found another market for slaves: New World plantations. In Spanish Caribbean islands and Portuguese Brazil ...

The slave trade stimulated British manufacturing and ... of Barbados was the richest of all the European colonies in the Caribbean region because of the profits from its sugar plantations.