How did the microbial exchange in the Americas affect the development of the African slave trade?
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A. Microbial exchange effects on African slave trade
1. new or spreading diseases of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
generally could no longer keep pace with world population or seriously
restrain its growth
2. for as long as the age of plague lasted, problems of severe regional
labor shortages had to be faced
3. gravest of these were in the last region to suffer devastating losses of
population to disease: the New World
4. solution lay in transplanting human labor
a. another kind of ecological exchange
b. human beings were swapped and shifted across the ocean and
ended up in the Americas
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