01:512:104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Africanization, Merchant Navy, Royal African Company
16 May 2018
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Chapter 04 - Slavery and Empire
The Beginnings of African Slavery
• Sugar and Slavery
• Portuguese used slaves in Madera
• Columbus had slaves in his colonies
• Slave in Brazil
• Model for efficiency
• Dutch expanded sugar market = more slaves
• British in Jamaica
• French in Martinique
West Africans
• Local community was important to blacks
• Women had economic independence
• Burned wild land to farm
• Big population-Timbuktu
Slavery in Africa
• More benevolent form of slavery
• Incorporated into the family
• Slave children were born free
The Demography of the Slave Trade
• 10 million slaves
• Males were favored
• Wanted young slaves
• Slavers came from all countries in Europe
• Actual raiders were black
The Middle Passage
• Forts in Africa
• Horrible ships
Arrival in the New World
• Doctored up to look good so they would be sold
Political Effects in Africa
• Losses of people = no more money in Africa
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Slavery comes to North America
• Indentured Servants were cheaper
• However Europeans began to find out that they could become free in
other colonies (Pennsylvania)
• Virginia Slave Code
• Can kill slaves
• No freedom for slave children
• Baptism doesn't matter
The Tobacco Colonies
• The South soon became the tobacco colonies
• Better conditions that the rest of North America
• Lost of food
• Slaves weren't killed because they were more useful alive and making
more slaves
The Lower South
South Carolina
• Started the FNP slave trade
• Shipped FNP to other colonies to prevent rebellion
• Rice and Indigo were grown
• Both needed slaves and were very profitable
Georgia
• Slavery was illegal but that was abandoned
• Extension of the South Carolina system
Slavery in the Spanish colonies
• Florida offered freedom to any escaped British slave
• Escaped slaves had to help defend Florida and convert to Christianity
• New Mexico used FNP slaves
French Louisiana
• New Orleans
• Defended the Mississippi
• Not many slaves
Slavery in the North
• Few but not concentrated
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