HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: International Trade, Battle Of The Plains Of Abraham, Mercantilism
18 Jan 2017
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Slavery used for the production of tropical drug foods (sugar), mining, other forms of labour. How many slaves: 0. 5 million slaves in 1600, 3. 5 million slaves in 1600, 8 million slaves in 1800, all together there were 12-16 million slaves between 1500 and 1800. Why such a demand for african slaves: european demand for sugar, tobacco, indigo, labour requirements of plantation system, (cid:498)unsuitability(cid:499) of aboriginals, who suffered high mortality/ran away. Europeans trade guns, weapons, alcohol for slaves. Europeans buy slaves from african coast; middlemen travel inwards to gather slaves and then would bring them back to europeans. Disenclavement the ending of isolation: chose population that was living outside of the european world; cultural differences; europeans did not enslave europeans, racial differences, europeans were masters of sea-faring technology. Why were west and west central african societies vulnerable: not because of military weakness, there already existed a slave trading culture within africa, demand for european trade goods for prestige consumption.
