SOC 0829 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Triangular Trade, Industrial Revolution, Nat Turner
8 Feb 2017
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What is slavery: submission to a dominating influence, state of a person who is chattel to another. Chattel: an item of tangible movable or immovable property except (other than) real estate, and things (building) connected with real property. The beginning: 15th century and accelerating in the 17th century, sugar revolution . The triangular trade, or european slave trade: europe africa americas. Then back to europe: this triangular trade went on for hundreds of years, slavery was last abolished in. Brazil, then a portuguese colony in 1888: millions of africans had to go through the middle passage. Crossing of the atlantic ocean on a slave ship. Principal europeans involved: portugal, spain, france, england, holland, denmark, sweden. Principal africans concerned - west and central africans: yoruba, akan, wolof, kongo, ngola, ibo. Why the africans: not the native americans: Died in great numbers: not the europeans: Had to be paid: the africans:
