HIST 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indentured Servant, Limited Voting, Mortality Rate
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Slavery, an american paradox: portugal and west africa, establishing the slave trade i. Portuguese began to sail around africa and some of them stopped in west africa. Looked for the kind of products they had bought from north african traders. 1: were mostly prisoners of war iii. Buy slaves from the interior and exchange them for goods and money: portuguese jusiicaions i. ii. iii. Didn"t think it was wrong, they were prisoners of war. However there was in issue with buying slaves from west africa. Found the answer with religion: said that west africans weren"t chrisian and therefore could be taken as slaves. Got permission to explore and possibly setle puerto rico. 1508 established irst spanish setlement in puerto rico: first european setlement in what is now u. s. ii. Enslaved tainos to work in gold mines: priests protested to the crown, the crown said that they must pay the tainos fair wages and teach them.
