HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dutch West India Company, Unfree Labour, Plantation Complexes In The Southern United States
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The rise of plantation slavery and plantation complexes. What began as an effort to solve one of the crisis of european feudalism- the need for royalty to secure wealth for consumption and war becomes the 18th century a dynamic new phase of? emergent capitalism. The rise of racially based plantation slavery linked different parts of the global economy in entirely new way. Wines up with an army in mexico. The natives don"t see the army as a threat. The ruler of the natives montezuma actually welcomed hernando cortes and his men. Montezuma gave gifts to the settlers like corn, silver, and gold and the settlers were so amazed because they had never seen such material before. Trading spains in europe begin to connect new commodities in europe. But than war increases of pillage and plunder. Spain couldn"t easily find species so they found new ways of going to places that had spices which was india.
