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Essential Questions about slavery: A list collaboratively generated by B Block October... - 18 views

Essential Questions about slavery A list collaboratively generated by B Block 7 october, 2010 Early Slavery: 1640s-1776 1. Why wasn't there a major slave uprising? 2. How were the slaves dehumani...

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Spain had neither direct access to the African sources of slaves nor the ability to transport them, so the asiento system was a way to ensure a legal supply of Africans to the New World, which brought revenue to the Spanish crown
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For the Spanish crown, the asiento was a source of profit.
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In Habsburg Spain, asientos were a basic method of financing state expenditures:
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short-term loan contracts provided by bankers (asientos)
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Initially, since Portugal had unimpeded rights in West Africa via its 1494 treaty it dominated the European slave trade of Africans.
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the Spanish fiscal authorities gave individual asientos to merchants, primarily from Portugal, to bring slaves to the Americas.
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Following the establishment of the Portuguese colony of Angola in 1575,
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Angolan interests came to dominate the trade,
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he period of the Iberian Union.
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those holding asientos for the Brazilian slave trade often also trading slaves in Spanish America.
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Till 1622 half of the slaves were destined for Mexico.
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AgTechnology timeline inventions farmers land

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Total population: 31,443,321
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Total population: 38,558,371
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Total population: 50,155,783
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Total population: 62,941,714
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Total population: 75,994,26
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Total population: 91,972,266
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31% of labor force
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8% of labor force
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43% of labor force
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Farmers made up 49% of labor force
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53% of labor force
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Drought reduced settlement on the Great Plains
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1887-97
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The sharecropping system in the South replaced the old slave plantation system
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Homestead Act granted 160 acres to settlers who had worked the land 5 years
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Cattle boom
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range wars
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