HIST 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: British Guiana, Manumission, New Rights
8 Oct 2016
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Commercial relations between african coastal communities and european traders o. Rationale that slavery was a step towards civilization for the africans captured as slaves. Tied to an employer or a piece of land: had to buy or work for their freedom. Sons of the gentry: wealth was land based o. Looking for other ways to expand their wealth. West african leaders involved in the trade. Factory workers and trades people: making the manufactured goods. What extent did the profits from slavery help finance the industrial revolution o. Vital from the mid-late eighteenth centuries o o o o. Believed that the engine of slavery was the economy o. Slavery and the slave trade was interconnected with the expansion of industrialization and the. Never suggested slavery was the sole cause of industrial growth, just that it was a central concept. Wasn"t just an economic imperative, also shaped british cultural life in a number of ways: newspapers o.
