BSC 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scurvy, Hookworm Infection
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Involved 4 continents: europe, africa, n. america, s. america: european interest piqued after african pilgrimages, portuguese traded chiefly for gold, ivory, pepper, and slaves, raiders captured africans to work as servants in portugal and spain, dutch drove portuguese from w. african coast, most africans came to the americas in dutch ships, dutch shifted center of sugar production to the west indies, english took control of the asiento by driving dutch, english, french away, africans didn"t consider it wrong to sell members of their own race to foreigners, victims of the trade believed that a concept of racial solidarity should exist, early demand for african slaves was miniscule until columbus" discovery of americas, disease and overwork caused numbers of american indians to rapidly decline, europeans relied on atlantic slave trade to replace them, spanish mexican mines and portuguese brazil plantations produced enormous demand for labor, atlantic slave trade grew to huge proportions to meet this demand.
