The New World is referred to as what..colonial america......in this period
The old world is referred to as what...most of europe especially england..... in this period
- slave background
- slavery had benn going on for a very long time
- dated back to ancient egypt
- biggest roles that slacery had in a cicilization would have been in Rome
- important in growing food in the latifunias
- also in colonial american it was not just the africans that would used as slaves, natives were also tried but the colonists had better luck with the africans
- historians compare it to holocaust
- start in mid 16th century ad continued up until the 19th century
- current estimate of the number of slaves that were actually shipped across the atlantic is roughly 12 million even though historians think that more were purchased
- Triangluar Trade
- 16th through 19th century
- consisted of the new world, old world, and africa
- africa-slaves
- old world-manufactured goods
- new world-cash crops
- Middle passage
- refer to the event of sending slaves across the atlantic to colonial america
- conditions were terrible
- some slaves ofter would even commit suicide by either not eatin or jumping off the ship and drowning
- slace would starve to death the captian would amke the family eat the liver and heart or the dead slave
- 15 to 20% of slaves died
- dead slaves would be thrown overboard to avoid disease
- how they were captured
- many slaves were captured by other africans
- they were bribed with alcohol and guns
- generally the european explorers would conduct coast raids, not go inland
- captured
- they would make them walk to the coast and wait for ships
- sometimes it would take months
- restrained to avoid escpae
- eurpoeans would take variety of slaves from diff villages, so they couldnt communicate with each other
- comumbian exchange
- named after chris comumbus
- diff foods from each side were exchanged
- pretty positive other than some disease that spread
- cause and effects
- colonial america was expanding quickly and they needed man power
- effects:
- african villiges were struggling
- disease
- racial superiority
- colonist became lazy
- economy boomed in south
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