SCA-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Meritocracy, Sleep Deprivation, William Wells Brown
22 Mar 2016
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The peak decades of the trade were 1700-1850 in which 50-60 thousand per year were packed in ships like the brookes . Over four centuries ten to eleven million africans were forcibly removed to the americas. Until 1820, five times as many africans as europeans had traveled across the atlantic. We think settlement as white colonists changing the world in the new settlements built upon the trade of human lives. Those numbers do not include those who died in the crossings -- usually somewhere between 5-20% of the cargo in each voyage. Shouldn"t think of slavery 1-dimensionally, something that involves a series of economic transaction. Lede of slave trader william smith, 1853. Ledge of william smith where he counts all the prices he received for different slaves. The slave trade is an important part of the internal slave trade within the united states.
