GEOG 121 Lecture 3: Geo Lesson 3
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To consider how the slave system of labor control spread from europe and africa to the. Americas, and how it grew and changed in the process. To address how the plantaion complex operated and how slaves responded to their circumstances. As a pracice: the mediterranean world, the importance of sugar producion. Sugar was an expensive trade in that ime: honey, manufactured sugar(from sugar canes, sugar producion was an outlier, couldn"t be harvested, grown, in the dominant systems of agriculture, focused plantaions on sugar, a key commodity. Slavery and sugar on the atlanic islands: portuguese merchants transplant the system to brazil. Slavery in west africa before the atlanic system: slavery and warfare: Military age men sold to distant markets/ trans-saharan trade: the arrival of european, slavery being created" by europeans. The atlanic slave trade: the importance of sugar, an alliance of actors, a triangular system, change over ime. Three broad areas: western coast, savanna and horn of africa, eastern coast.
