HIST 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Haitian Revolution, Concubinage, Atlantic World
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Africans and the atlantic world: slavery & females focus. Pawnship the use of people as collateral for credit (lovejoy and. Panyarring - enslavement for debt (punitive), from portuguese penhor (pawn) Surplus of problematic people difficult to integrate into society - war captives helped to prevent this. Concubinage - purchase of girl/woman for wife or consort. In sao tome, model for african slave labour on sugar cane plantations. Portuguese and spanish (nw) desire for mining and plantation labour expanded in 16th century: first trans-atlantic slaves shipped 1532. 17th century: dutch, french, english use of slaves in nw sugar plantations; import of slaves to south africa. Context in which slaving kingdoms arise (next week) Shift in economic power - becomes difficult to intersect trade. Total: estimated 12 million slaves shipped from africa to nw (brazil, caribbean, southern us) Mostly young men and women (aged 1435) from west africa. Productive and reproductive people being taken - ruins population of.