AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Forced Migration
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More like america"s class today (you could move up and down classes, didn"t depend on your birth, depended on money) Opens new area to europeans, who want to take it over. Found land to grow crops on, that you can"t grow in england. Agricultural workers needed to work land in new world. Own people couldn"t survive in equatorial environment, if worked too hard they"d die. You do a crime, you become a slave for a while to make up for it. Sell those individuals to white people (bc they don"t want murderers living with them) Wars - one side wins, uses opposing side as slaves and sells them on trans- saharan slave trade. The belief that africans all love each other and they all get along. At beginning, when europeans first came over, they bought the slaves. West africans realized europeans didn"t respect the system, didn"t bring the people back, give rights, etc.
