HST 119 Lecture 4: A Lecture on Slavery in the Atlantic World/Empire
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A lecture on slavery and the atlantic world/empire. Production of sugar cut off in the middle east. Sugar grew pretty well in some parts of the mediterranean & some parts of north western looked for other access for sugar. Labour: local populations (not so great, susceptible to disease, people were busy with other stuff/options/alternatives/escape, indentured servants (underemployed people from the homeland - still ineffective, captive/captured/slave labour. Experimentation with sugar cultivation or madeira, canaries , sao tome + principe with labour from kongo. North america (raw materials) >> western europe manufactures goods >> africa sends slaves. >> canada & west coast of atlantic >> repeat. Areas of procurement - changes over time, bight of benin, kongo, dahomey. Role of slavery in western capitalism & industrialization can be argued. 1793 toussaint l"ouverture"s slave revole - haiti (1804) End of european legal participation in atlantic slave trade. Baya - largest sugar producer in brazil (east)
