HIS 1003 Lecture 9: African Slave Trade
14 Dec 2016
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Sugar from india brought through islamic empires to europe: mediterranean sugar plantations: use slaves taken as war prisoners or use trans- Saharan slave trade as supply: 1450s: portuguese set up plantations on the canary islands, azores, cape verde. Felipe guaman poma de ayala: protesting treatment in peru, abusing mine workers. Creating new societies and people in the american colonies. American conversion to catholicism: music of guadalupe: virgen de los indios, the virgin of guadalupe appeared in a vision to the nahua indian juan diego in. December 1531 (10 years after cortez" conquest of tenochtitlan). The instruments include pre-contact instruments like the aztec double flute, drums, rainstick, rattles, etc. Compare to north america: more protestants, more families, less mixing with less urban natives. Encomienda (ended 1720: spanish crown officially gives labor of indian villages to the spanish. Pizarro in peru: 175 spaniards vs. 50,000 incan warriors, pizarro calls for private meeting with inca leaders and king atahualpa, kills the king.
