How did the transatlantic slave trade benefit European plantation owners in the West Indies? It allowed them to grow and produce goods more cheaply. It provided them with guns and ammunition for defending their plantations. It provided them with goods from Europe unavailable in the Americas. It allowed them to sell enslaved persons to landowners in the Middle East.

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Jolie Gardner

14 March, 07:46

How did the transatlantic slave trade benefit European plantation owners in the West Indies? It allowed them to grow and produce goods more cheaply. It provided them with guns and ammunition for defending their plantations. It provided them with goods from Europe unavailable in the Americas. It allowed them to sell enslaved persons to landowners in the Middle East.

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Ashley Combs · Answer 1

The transatlantic slave trade had a consequential benefit and advantage for European plantation owners in the ways that it was able to open up and increase trade between the Americas, bringing an array of new products and items into Europe that had previously not been seen.