AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Atlantic Slave Trade, Triangular Trade, Final Good
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Time period was in existence for 400 years. 1492 (first slave came to new world with the first european) 1880 (brazil was the last country to stop the slave trade) Atlantic slave trade is part of the triangle trade. Being involved in slave trade = profitable job. Fill boat with finished goods, things they think west africans would want. Protects their kingdom from other west african kingdoms. In west africa, they unload the boat of finished goods, and load the boat with slaves. Middle passage movement of west africans from west africa to the new world. Unload slaves, load raw materials (crops like sugar, cotton, tobacco, rum) Then go back to europe with raw materials. Takes a year at the beginning of slave trade, towards the end of the 400 years it takes 6 months because of bigger boats. Slave trade was #1 moneymaker in the world at the time. West africans know about other cultures, have christianity, judaism, and.
