Transatlantic%20Trade/Triangular%20Trade

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Transatlantic Trade/Triangular Trade
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• More like a web, than a triangle
• More trade between West Indies and colonies than
  explained as a triangle

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Sugar Cane

• Imported from Asia to the New world
• Sugar cane plantations
• Needs a large labor force

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Why the African?

• Native American was the 1st slave in the new
  world.
• He was biologically naïve.
• Victim of disease, starvation, and cruel
  treatment through various atrocities.

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Why the African?

• Bartolome de las Casa- fought against the cruelty
  toward the Native American.
• Thought the African was a better choice because
  of immunity to disease, knowledge of farming and
  various skilled labor.
• Later recanted this idea.

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Middle Passage

• Dreaded passage across the Atlantic
• Africans packed into ships
• Many died

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• Some captains tried to keep Africans healthy
  because they were an investment

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What are you

• Prior to slave trade you where defined by
• Religion
• Homeland
• Sex Male or Female
• (white and black were not an issue yet)

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When race became an issue

• In beginning, a loophole for slave to become free
  was converting and being baptized.
• To fix this loophole slavery became based on race
  thus creating black and white.

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Inferiority

• European begin to believe the African is inferior
  to justify using them as forced labor.
• To ease the guilty conscious they justify by
  giving the African Christianity.
• By being inferior they could treat them
  subhuman.

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Matrilineal vs. Patrilineal

• European society gives status to children based
  upon status of father.
• The slave is given status of mother for several
  reasons
• To create generations of slave labor at no cost.
• Allow master options of not claiming their
  offspring

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Indentured Servant

• Mostly European, sold themselves into a temporary
  slavery to repay the cost of immigration to the
  new world.
• Problem the I.S. could blend in with other
  colonist thus could easily escape thus did not
  honor his agreement.

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Where they went

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