POL301Y1 Lecture 3: Lecture POL301 May 23
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European nations founded colonies throughout the new world. Lecture notes: pol301 the slave trade, colonialism in africa. Introduction: the rise of europe and imperialism: The atlantic slave trade: shipped slaves to the western hemisphere (north america, south. Europeans sold goods produced in americas in exchange for slaves in. The trans-saharan slave trade: principally sold slaves to mediterranean coastal regions, estimated between 8,390,800 to 11,313,000, 3. The red sea slave trade: sent slaves to middle east and south asia, estimated 2,327,500, used as wives, harems, 4. The swahili coast slave trade: focused on the indian ocean islands and south and south east asia, estimated 3,161,000, http://wysinger. homestead. com/mapofafricadiaspora2. html, http://www. nmm. ac. uk/freedom/viewtheme. cfm/theme/timeline. Imperialism: where the often vast profits of slave traders and shippers and plantation owners were directed, slavery contributed to the accumulation of wealth and facilitated the transitions to industrial capitalism (drove the industrial. Imperialism also encompasses different kinds of indirect control.
