HIST 103A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Slave Ship, Royal African Company
8 Mar 2018
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The history & common culture created by regular interactions between the peoples of the americas, europe, africa around the rim of the atlantic ocean. The world bounded by the atlantic ocean. Dating from the institution of regular contact in the early 16th century through the beginning of the 19th-century. A historians" term (not used by people living in the 16th-17th century) Deployed as a means of analysis (frame and method) Focuses our attention on the world in which all of the different societies are a part of (frame) Allows us to see more clearly the patterns and movements that cross the boundaries we might otherwise draw (method) Mainland north america receives only 3-4% of total (c. 400,000) Vast bulk of trade was traffic from africa to the caribbean or sometimes large south american slave plantations in brazil. Very large increase in volume of enslaved captives approaching the late 18th century when the british empire got involved in the slave trade.
