- The Slave Trade in World History
- Numbers
- Took place from 1500-1866
- 12.7 million people were taken from Africa
- 10.8 million people who arrived in the New World
- How is it connected to world economy?
- The Great Trade
- New World -> Europe
- Europe -> Africa
- Africa -> New World
- How'd the Slave Trade actually work tho?
- Step 1
- African men were captured
- Captured by other Africans
- Usually from competing kingdoms or tribes
- Step 2
- Slaves are sold to middlemen (African merchants)
- Step 4
- Europeans would taste the sweat of slaves to see if they're sick...
- Europeans buying slaves
- Step 5
- The Middle Passage
- 14%-25% chance (due to DISEASE and suicide)
- Step 6
- Bought by a plantation owner
- Deep thought question
- How ELSE could plantation owners get slaves?
- Why is sugar tied to slavery?
- Stage I
- Stage II
- Crush it!!
- Cook it (to remove water)
- Mold it
- Distill it (rummmm)
- Requires A LOT of workers
- Why not Natives? Europeans?
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