transalantic slave trade 1500-1866

overview

12.5 mil africans taken to america (1.8 mil dies during middle passage 14% death rate) violent trade system

what made it unique

massive scale (centeral role in colonial economics)

plantation labor (sugar, coffee, cotton)

racial bias (black)

hereditary

how it worked

european demand drove trade africans supplied captives (waited on coast, not invade)

africans sold other africans (prisionors of war, criminals, debtors)

moves slaved in brazil, carrabean

resistance

enslaved rebelled, escaped, slow work 10% faced rebellions)

some escapes formed moroon socieities e.g palmers in brazil

impact on africa

africa to atlantic ecnomy but

pop growth slowed, wars increased, political instability, corruption raised

european firearms fueld viloence

connected to rev

economic systems fueled european wealth and colonial power (revs demanding freedom, equality)

connected to new world

depeneded on slave labor for ecnomic growth

slavery helped created wealth that built colonial societies enriched european empire

racial hierarchy, africans at bottom

slave system-global trade (trianglar trade)

showed how unfair old regime was