HISTORY 2HH3 Lecture 7: Slavery Part II
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Look to structures of trade and two early modern developments: 1) redemption, and 2) ransom. System of slave trade across mediterranean occurred in part through piracy and corsairing in the 16th to 17th century. Piracy, captivity, and slavery should be understood as an early modern mediterranean dynamic. Lay to its east and by the mid 16th century, was one of its main rivals. Commodity: slavery was an important commodity, important for domestic work, imperial projects, and armies, demand for slavery, once spain emerges into atlantic, it demands slaves for those markets. Ransom: a new increasingly important aspect of the slave business in 16th to 17th c. Redemption: religious and political impulses made the redemption of slaves important. Either through privateering or outright war, 16th and 17th century saw increase in the capture of slaves. Slaves used as part of the war-making machinery. Battle of the bay of naples (1544: at least 7000 men seized as slaves.