HIST1087 Final: part 2 of globe notes
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How slavery and slave trade shaped the atlantic. In theory anyone can cultivate a plot of land as long as no one else was at the time. In practice a ruler would distribute right to cultivate on a plot of land to noblemen. Peasants wouldn"t have legal right to land(collecting rent/sell land: taxies levied on, europe: tax per amount of land, africa: tax per person c. In africa, slaves were the main form of private property: sources of slaves, warfare(losing party, banditry(kidnapping) c. Argument: slave trade at once a source of great human suffering and a carefully organized business: the atlantic slave trade by the numbers, 15th to 18th centuries, majority of migrants to americas not free, approx. Argument: europeans saw slavery as necessary in colonies but didn"t want it to contaminate their own soil: slavery in europe, across early modern societies, only outsiders could be enslaved b. 1: code noir(black code), 1685, featured protections for slaves and controls.
