HIST 2055 Chapter : 6 Slavery In The Colonies 1
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Caribbean: triangle trade, goods picked up from caribbean and taken to europe, made into new goods, traded in africa for slaves, who produce the goods in the. Caribbean: hierarchy of races, before beginning the african slave trade, europeans believed that white represented godliness and black represented evil, so they assumed. Africans were evil: early scientist based the hierarchy on civilization, since africans were least civilized they were at the bottom. In the 1660"s, england no longer has a wandering unruly population who they can ship to america to labor: to compensate for the lack of indentured servants from. This gave an incentive for the slave to work hard and finish their job so that the rest of the day they could do what they wanted. Slave communities: resistance, middle passage had very few mutinies but there were a few. Most failed: slaves tried to maintain their culture as a form of rebellion once they reached.
