Thursday, January 24, 2013

Commerce in People: The Atlantic Slave Trade

            Global network is linked commercial of early modern world. The trade were spices and textiles, silver and gold, beaver pelts and deerskin  slaves and sugar. Four centuries ago, more or less II million African people shipped across the Atlantic to the America as a slaves. People who sold and captured the slaves were outsiders, and those people didn't had strong community, which made it easy of people who were getting slave for money. In the America there were three different races slaves and they were some European  African and Native American. Lots of Native Americans died from European disease. From the slavery the word Racism come because there were two colored people black and white. They owned and exchanged slaves, but at that time it wasn't a big deal. 

           The European learned about sugar production from Arabic people and later European formed their own sugar production in west Africa, America and more countries. Sugar production was the first modern industry with new technologies. The Europeans made slaves do all the hard and dangerous work. The Europeans take all the profit from the sugar production and their country had good economic condition. However in the America, African became the main source for plantation the economic system. In the modern era people are more dependent on the world market. 

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