HIST 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Atlantic Slave Trade, Dependency Theory
16 Jun 2017
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We were in modern day haiti and dominican republic. Death in millions but so were the survivors. Mita people in the mainland would work the land. 99% of the indigenous population succumbed to epidemics or migrates. Orthodox caribbean = islands & some of the main shorelines. Great caribbean = developed by historian geographies and goes from. Even today these zones exhibit a great deal of socio-economic inequality. Panama/andres called choca because they were not plantation economies but natural resource economies (example: gold) Creole means people who are born in the americas but their parents are of. African descent & mixed race mix of west african, french, spanish etc. Argued trade links had imposed new form of slavery that weakened the foundations of african societies for centuries. Said in no instance did they fore africans to trade, they did it through trade relations. Because africans were unsure about what happened to all the peoples they took.
