HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Atlantic Slave Trade, Dental Caries, Consumerism
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Atlantic system developed roughly 1500 to early 1800s connecting disparate parts of atlantic thru movement of goods, people and ideas. Trade, colonization and slavery were at its core. Independence movements eventually and democratic revolutions as well. Ideas of democratic institutions spread throughout these areas (usa, haiti, france, Slave societies created in caribbean and americas which enriched europe and created consumer boom. Enriched elites and depopulating and politically destabilizing atlantic africa. Most trade was from manufactured goods from europe, and unmanufactured, raw goods (sugar) is traded into europe, and slaves from africa to americas. Most of european nations that created colonies in caribbean and americas, they had monopolistic trade agreement/laws that some people who farmed these raw materials were not allowed to refine these raw materials, they had to go back to. Europe to refine it, and thus europe benefitted from it. Boar-bristle brushes used because of increased tooth decay due to sugar.
