HIST104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wok, Planation Surface, Atlantic Slave Trade
26 Feb 2018
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Africa and the beginning of the atlantic slave trade. Africa background (cid:120) diverse landscape and people (cid:120) desert sahara (cid:120) habitable parts grassland savannas (cid:120) rainforest @ equator lush but not fertile (cid:120) Europeans in africa (cid:120) portuguese sailing south opens up possibility for trade with africa by 1490. Spring 2018 (cid:120) trade in africa risky b/c so many ppl die but profit makes it worth risk to some (cid:120) slaves as commodity: taken first to portugal to labor (cid:120) 1500s 35,000 africans in portugal (cid:120) When they turn to slave labor =atlantic slave trade. Slavery (cid:120) slavery exists before this moment portuguese don"t invent slavery (cid:120) 1500 africans weren"t majority of slave population: slavery still exists today. Demand for slaves from africa: resistance of africans to disease, economic advantages of slaves to produce sugar or mine, need to replace slaves often with new slaves to do said labor.
