HISTORY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marcus Rediker, Atlantic Slave Trade, Atlantic World
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Reiteraion of monday"s discussion: term new world privileges not limiing perspecive to europe and more atenive perspecive to muli-direcionality of the slave ships that crossed the ocean. Limitaion of term atlanic world not full global history, does not acknowledge. When thinking about importance of slavery in north america, why do many people not think comparaively in regards to the importance of slavery in other colonies across the. Race as an acion and religion as a working theory. Island called hispaniola in 1540s irst experiment of using enslaved african people for labour rather that indigenous people hispaniola = modern day haii and the. Dominican republic will return to modern day haii at the end of class. Slavery produce luxury goods (sugar, tobacco), mines (silver) Reason for larger numbers of slaves sent to caribbean and south america = anicipaion of death. Idea that people could be enslaved for life because their mothers were enslaved = new phenomenon.
