Much wealth generated between the 1700s and the 1860s came from the forced migration of the slave trade and the violently coerced labor of enslaved men, women, and children on plantations.

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The transatlantic slave trade and the exploitation of enslaved people's labor, particularly in plantation economies in the Americas, were central to the accumulation of wealth in Europe and the Americas during this period.

Much Wealth Generated Between the 1700s and the 1860s Came