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rachel tanner

Triangular trade - 5 views

www.nmm.ac.uk/...triangular

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  • The profits made from the global trade of sugar, tea and coffee were the major driving force behind
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    • Matt Esterman
      Matt Esterman on 22 Mar 10
       
      this is the name of the trade of goods and resources between Europe, Africa and the Americas
  • triangular trade.
  • three journeys
  • the triangular trade.
  • 1790s
  • 480,000 enslaved people in British
  • Caribbean colonies
  • 11-12 million Africans
  • slavery
  • 1720s
  • 200,000 enslaved Africans
  • average 10% died en route rising to
  • 30% on a bad voyage.
  • rachel tanner on 22 Mar 10
     
    Includes map and information on the triangular trade and trade goods route.
  • Matt Esterman on 22 Mar 10
     
    Includes map and information on the triangular trade and trade goods route.
Danielle Rice

African History: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - 3 views

africanhistory.about.com/...TransAtlantic001.htm

why trade in africa occured

shared by Danielle Rice on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • began around the mid-fifteenth century
  • Why did the Trade Begin? Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most cases the indigenous peoples had proved unreliable (most of them were dying from diseases brought over from Europe), and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases. Africans, on the other hand, were excellent workers: they often had experience of agriculture and keeping cattle, they were used to a tropical climate, resistant to tropical diseases, and they could be "worked very hard" on plantations or in mines.
  • Danielle Rice on 22 Mar 10
     
    Provides a paragraph of information about why trade began in Africa. Lists reasons such as the climate, the fact that natives were excellent and obediant workers and 'worked very hard'
Matt Esterman

AFRICAN HOLOCAUST | History of Africa restored - 4 views

www.africanholocaust.net/...NSATLANTIC%20SLAVE%20TRADE.htm

rebellion slavery slave trade

shared by Matt Esterman on 13 May 10 - Cached
  • It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone’s culture - Maya Angelou
  • A Dutch traveller to the kingdom of Benin in the early 17th century sent home this report of the capital. ‘It looks very big when you enter it for you go into a great broad street, which, though not paved, seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes Street in Amsterdam. This street continues for about four miles and has no bend in it. At the gate where I went in on horseback, I saw a big wall, very thick and made of earth, with a deep ditch outside. Outside the gate there is a large suburb. Inside as you go along the main street, you can see other broad streets on either side, and these are also straight. The houses in this town stand in good order, one close to the other and evenly placed beside the next, like our houses in Holland.’ Africans and the African continent have made enormous contributions to human history just as other peoples and continents have. It is the development of Eurocentric and racist views in Europe that have denied this fact and sought to negate the history of Africa and its peoples.
  • African Historiography Walter Rodney The slave trade contributed to Africa's depopulation, to the increased use of slaves within Africa, to the development of more predatory political systems, and to a greater gap between rich and poor. John Fage A know racist who is one of the leading Eurocentrics who white wash slavery. He Rejected the argument that slave exports led to serious depopulation and contended that the slave trade contributed to political centralization and economic growth. Eric Williams Racism was the result and not the cause of slavery; slave economies were a major source of capital for the industrial revolution; abolition came when slave economies were declining in profitability; abolition was driven more by economic interests than by philanthropy. Frank Tannenbaum Compared to British colonists, Latin Americans were less tainted by racial prejudice, were more lenient in their treatment of slaves, and extended religious and legal protections involving families and physical cruelty. Carl Degler Demographic necessity led the Portuguese in Brazil to promote freedmen and mulattoes into positions of social respectability; in the U.S., poor white yeomanry supported racism to protect their position in society.
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  • Major Rebellions New York City, 1712 Like many later revolts, this one occurred during a period of social dissension among whites following Leisler's Rebellion. The rebels espoused traditional African religion. Stono Rebellion, 1739 The Spanish empire enticed slaves of English colonies to escape to Spanish territory. In 1733 Spain issued an edict to free all runaway slaves from British territory who made their way into Spanish possessions. On September 9, 1739, about 20 slaves, mostly from Angola, gathered under the leadership of a slave called Jemmy near the Stono River, 20 miles from Charleson. 44 blacks and 21 whites lost their lives. South Carolina responded by placing import duties on slaves from abroad, strengthening patrol duties and militia training, and recommending more benign treatment of slaves. Gabriel's Rebellion, 1800 This attempted insurrection near Richmond was organized during the Haitian Revolution and the undeclared naval war between the U.S. and France. Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy, 1822 This failed insurrection was organized soon after the contentious debate over the admission of Missouri as a slave state. Like Gabriel, Vesey consciously looked to Haiti for inspiration and support. Nat Turner, 1832 This insurrection took place at a time when slaves in Jamaica had staged one of the largest revolts in history, when radical abolition had arisen in the North, and Britain was debating slave emancipation.
  • Matt Esterman on 13 May 10
     
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Matt Esterman

History Slave Trade - 5 views

www.ghanaweb.com/...slave-trade.php

slavery quotes slave trade

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  • According to historian Walter Rodney, for example, Europe abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade only because its profitability was undermined by the Industrial Revolution.
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