SOC 0833 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Byrsonima Crassifolia, Industrial Revolution, Stono Rebellion
Document Summary
What is it: submission to a dominating in uence, state of a person who is chattel to one another. Began 15th century - through 17th century: sugar revolution . Triangular trade: europe - africa - americas (back to europe, lasted 100s of years. The middle passage: crossing the atlantic on a salve ship. Approximately 1/3 of all african americans died on this voyage: most of whom died . Were between ages of 15 and 35 years old. Principal countries : portugal (burnt all physical evidence of involvement, spain, france, england, holland, denmark, sweden. Principal africans : yoruba, akan, wolof, kongo, ngola, ibo. Why not use native americans as slaves: they had knowledge of the land, died in great numbers. Why not use europeans as slaves: no agricultural skills, unreliable source of labor, had to be paid. Why use africans as slaves: racism, free labor, no knowledge of the land, strong agricultural skills.
