SOSC 2480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Melanin, Yellow Fever, Triangular Trade
8 Dec 2016
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Take their valuables (i. e. , their gold and precious valuables) Create plantations to produce for monetary gain (the key commodity is sugar in the caribbean region) Important questions to ask: why africa is included and required in these trades, especially the costal and. Race and slavery in the new world: radicalized images of slavery. Because they were thought of less than. There were some slaves but many were under servitude not slaver. Many had indentured labour and were forced to work for masters. The trouble was dealing with the change in environment that they were put to work in and they could not handle the disease and health risks since they were not immune to them. Because it is close to south america and a relatively short trip. Because they can manage the climate and the environment much better since it is very similar to their home countries which was an assumption from the europeans.
