HIST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Atlantic Slave Trade, Haitian Creole, Atlantic Ocean
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Big picture: systematic, long distance, forced, migration, of people, 75% of pieces were males between 15-25. Ideological: africans + black skin, a person of african descent is viewed as a slave until proven otherwise, inheritance via mother (future), doesn"t matter the dad"s legal or economic status, it"s based off the mom, womb becomes enslaved. Transformation of: economy, culture, demographics, african-american cultures, music (tango, marima, language (haitian creole, religion (candombl ) To 1820s: immigration: 4 africans for every european, 4 out of 5 females from africa, high mortality rate (work, low fertility (sex) imbalance, suicide common. African participation: it"s that they were willing giving themselves up, but there was business to be made, hausa yoruba tobacco.
