HIS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Eviction, Saint-Domingue, Netherlands Antilles
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Closer economic integration destabilized some states while strengthening others as new places and products impacted world markets. Furs from north america: coffee from southeast asia and middle east (to the americas by the 18th century, sugar, tobacco, indigo, cotton and rice from the caribbean, brazil and british. It assumed that colonies existed to generate wealth for the motherland. Colonies forbidden to trade with the motherland"s competitors: mercantilists believed the philosophy of thomas hobbes (1588-1679) Wealth is power and power is wealth: the mercantilist system required an alliance between the states and its mer- chants. Chartered companies such as english virginia company and the dutch. East india company exemplify this collaboration: north american colonies, sugar transformed the european diet. Europeans imported 12 million tons of sugar between 1690 and 1790, or one ton (2,000 pounds) for every african slave in the americans. Relied on slave labour to produce sugar for export;
