HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture I Europe and world trade before Columbus II The age of discovery Europe and merchant capitalism III The role of Portugal IV The Columbian moment Outline of Current Lecture I Slavery in Africa A Era of market merchant capitalism 1500 1750 B Trans Saharan slave trade 7th 19th centuries 1 International trade two major sources before European contact 2 Slaves were prisoners of war massive numbers of workers in the fields C In Africa kingship and lineage was great in their society 1 This is destroyed and the stain of slavery is lessened D In the Americas slavery becomes about race and becomes permanent II The Sugar Economy A Portugal also begins participation in the slave trade 1 Slave trade brought back to Europe B By 1450 10 of capital was African 1 Begin sugar plantations and use slaves as laborers 2 Sao Tome is the first large scale sugar growing plantation and becomes the establishment for sugar growing C 1502 Portuguese discover Brazil and begin harvesting wood 1 1520 s Portuguese planters begin growing sugar in Brazil and begin bringing in slaves 2 Start of the sugar economy in the Americas D 1620 s the Dutch become an economic powerhouse and take over Brazil for a bit 1 1640 s Portugal takes it back E Sugar economy moves to the Caribbean Barbados F 1640 s 1650 s English learn from Dutch and begin to grow sugar 1 Don t have enough workers indentured servants 2 Solution expand slave trade in Africa 3 By 1650 s many Europeans come to seize Caribbean islands These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute III IV 4 By 1700 s Europeans begin to compete New World Slavery some s A 12 4 million people stripped of their lives pushed into European slave trade B Middle passage Africa to the Americas C 1650 mortality rate 25 by 1750 down to 15 too expensive to lose slaves D When captured 15 died Within first year 15 died E 1780 s reaches peak of slave trade 1 80 000 slaves traded a year 2 This is the foundation of the New World economy Slavery and Modernity A The growth of slavery 1 The desire for sugar 2 Radical views that exist today
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