HIST 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Atlantic Slave Trade, Asiento, Middle Colonies
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Chapter 4- slavery, freedom, and the struggle for empire. Atlantic trading vessels: enrolled in school in england and was taught how to read a write where he enlisted in to the royal navy, fount in the 7 years war. It would be wrong to see the first 2 quarters of the 18th century as a prelude to american independence. The atlantic was a bridge between the new and old worlds. Ideas, goods, and people flowed across the ocean. Every european empire in the new world utilized slave labor and battled for control of this lucrative trade. In the british empire of the eighteenth century, free laborers working for wages were atypical and slavery was the norm: plantations contributed to english economic development. The first mass consumer goods in international trade were produced by slaves: sugar, rice, coffee, tobacco. The rising demand of these products fueled the rapid growth of the atlantic slave trade.
