01:450:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Friedrich Ratzel, Lebensraum, Ellen Churchill Semple
26 Jan 2018
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European colonialism and the colonial legacy (500 yr period) Triangular trade - raw materials from the americas, manufactured good from europe, Beyond control over lands: controlling waterways slave trade from 1500s through 1866 when it was outlawed - 12. 5 africans shipped to the new world - around 2 million died. Business typically took place outside of europe after 16th century. Goods such as sugar, coffee, tea, tobacco, cotton were produced through slave labor and were used in european high society pro t was the motive for plantation agriculture, sold goods. John tailyour (scotland 1755) - slave trader - primarily working with tobacco - apprenticeship in scotland, travels to virginia, cousin in kingston gives him a job. > had affair with mix woman - polly graham - and had 4 children global networks around the slave trade: plantation owners, human traf ckers, ship companies. Lot more jamaicans than europeans but had weapons to keep order.
