Question

1. Identify any three characteristics of regional trade.
2. Explain the factors that led to decline of Trans-Atlantic slave Trade. 

Answer 1

1.  
   1. Large volume of goods is involved
   2. Existence of middlemen
   3. Covers a bigger geographical area
   4. A variety of goods are exchanged
2.  
   1. Industrialization when machines were developed
   2. Economists, e.g. Adan Smith, argued that free men were more productive than slaves
   3. Christian missionaries fought against slave trade and slavery
   4. American independence in1776, denied Britain a slave market
   5. The French revolution of 1789, spread the idea of equality and liberty of all human kind
   6. Closure of the American slave market
   7. Development of legitimate trade replaced slave trade.