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The slave trade in America deep-seated has roots in Britain, where one very prominent slave trader by the names John Hawkins is up to date considered the first slave trader of English origin in the 16th century. Awkward prose His first journey of slaves to St Domingo left England in the year 1563, the second voyage was in the year 1564 and last the most disastrous of all his slave trade expeditions occurred in 1567 after a war with the Spanish inhabitants. The growth and origin of slavery in British America can be drawn from the introduction of the sugar plantation in Barbados by the Dutch merchants; who introduced African slaves to Barbadian sugar planters. Initially, sugar farmers employed indentured workers and criminal offenders to harvest, grow and harvest sugarcane.

Why was this original form of labor deemed insufficient? Were other considerations at play in the turn to use of slave labor?