AHL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Underground Railroad, Code Noir

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There are three main mechanisms to becoming a slave: warfare, war captives, pows, slave raids, judicial processes. There was a growing demand for slaves because of sugar cultivation and sugar cane farms. Slaves were considered a commodity so records were kept incredibly accurately. There was no reason to hide what was going on, it was normalised. There were more than 1 million european slaves in north africa before the 16th century. Slaves were largely for sugar cultivation on crete and cyprus. Sugar is enormously labor intensive and a fundamental industrial commodity, not seasonal. The demand for slave labour was driven by the need for clear land, planting by hand, weeding, harvesting, transportation, processing, packaging, every aspect of the sugar plantations. As a result of this, 2/3 of the slaves arriving in america end up in sugar planting colonies. 1600-1680, african slaves were 2/3 of all people arriving in the americas. Prior to the 1770s, sugar meant slaver and vice-versa.

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