HIST 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paternalism, Klemens Von Metternich, Foundling Hospital
3 Dec 2016
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The atlantic system and the world economy. Western european trading nations sent ships loaded with goods to buy slaves from local rulers on the western coast of. The slaves were then transported to the colonies in north and. South american and the caribbean and sold to the owners of plantations producing coffee, sugar, cotton, and tobacco. Money from the slave trade was used to buy the raw commodities produced in the colonies and ship them back to. Europe, where they were processed and then sold within. Spain and portugal dominated atlantic trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the 1700s, large-scale planters of sugar, tobacco, and coffee began displacing small farmers who relied on one or two indentured servants. Often overworked and mistreated but were more expensive than slaves. Most enslaved women and men had been sold to european traders by africans from the west coast. Vast majority between 14 and 35 years old.
