While the rising demand for slaves in the Chesapeake played some role in the large growth of the Atlantic slave trade between the mid-1500s and the late 1800s, it was the spread of plantation economies in other places that spurred and sustained the traffic in human beings. Which were these other places?
A) the Caribbean and South America
B) South Africa and India
C) the Middle East and North Africa
D) British North America

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The Caribbean and South America were major centers of plantation economies, particularly for sugar, which drove the demand for slave labor and significantly contributed to the growth of the Atlantic slave trade.

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