Dual History I 1/12/26

Slavery

• Slavery became extremely profitable for Africa

• Slaves would sometimes be invited in, abused or sold

• Europe gives us the system of Slavery→ already in place

• alot of colonies outlaw slavery before we even get to the civil war

Market Types

• The Americans

• The Islamic World

• always tribes attacking tribes and bringing people to the coast to sell them to white people going one way or the Islamics going another way

Reason

• African Americans had already been exposes to diseases so they could handle smallpox and many more —> they were completely unfamiliar with the area

• If you sneezed on a Native American, they had a 80% of dying →if they didn’t want to be a slave they ran into the forest

Triangular Trade

• Europe

• Africa (only provided labour/slaves)

• America

• Continual cycle of trading for each other

• Functions close to centuries
  

• Europe →traded Rum to Africa

• Africa→traded Labor to America

• America traded sugar to Europe

• sugar canes make the #1 beverage at the time →became so valuable it was more valuable then paper money

• biggest economic cycle

• slave traders were viewed as prestigious

• most of sugar cane was made in carribean

Slaves

• if you were not fed or clothed owners learned you could get 3 years off someone

• plaintain owners figured it was cheaper to get a new trade then fed your slaves→ they knew they were working their slaves to death

• in north american the greatest threat you could put on a slave was that they would threaten to sell them + send them to sugar fields (slaves knew it meant death)

• slavery was a massive way to increase labor force

• slaves would say they were baptized and slave owners (members of church) didnt want to put a “brother in christ” as slaves so they would become free→ many slaves used this

Indentured Servitude + extra details

• like after a certain amount of time you were free→if you pay their passage you made a contract, worked a couple years then apparently you were free

• didn’t work

• owners would rewrite it→ extending the contract so then slaves would run away