HIST 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Triangular Trade, Monarchy Of The United Kingdom
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Cof es caravans of long chains of slaves; often chained by the neck. What: being tied together by the neck and being captured as entire communities and walking many miles from middle of africa to the coastline // slavery raised from 11% to 20% of the populations. Why/signi cance: you could not own land at this time and you could only own people according to law. An extensive trade network within the triangular trade in the 18th century that was particularly concerned with the trading of slaves. Slaves would be captured in africa and shipped across the atlantic to the new. World where they would be traded for raw materials. Slaves were treated very poorly in this journey to the new world, and most wished for death over slavery and believed that they would be rewarded with a return to africa in their afterlives. The negro election day festival began in 1741 in several towns of new.
