POLI SCI 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, Nuclear Family
29 Aug 2016
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??questions: where do you start with great lakes slave trade, sugar, a valuable substance. Less than 5% of atlantic slave trade (ast) was in the u. s. Native americans were slaves before sub saharan africans. Many diseases (from europeans) killed native americans. Client would come to us with a patron (european?) and worked for a period of time until free unaware of how much labor . Became undesirable because servants were protected by contracts they had to do. 11-15million enslaved africans involved in transatlantic slave trade. 16th century: 2,000 slaves per year imported to americas. 1780"s: 80,000 slaves per year imported to americas: fage view on slavery in africa. The societies that held slaves were connected to ast. Slaves not important to function of african societies which is why they. Didn"t have slaves: rodney view on slavery in africa. Slave could be absorbed into masters lineage. Slavery and kinship was a broad spectrum of types of servitude.
