HIST1087 Lecture 8: Lecture Sep 22, 2016
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The slave trades - atlantic, indian ocean, and mediterranean. Europeans/africans had a di erent view on what slaves were. The middle passage movement of slaves to sugar plantations in brazil, americas. The slave trade is more extensive and worse than imagined it can happen in the early modern period. Romans capture enormous numbers of people multiethic polity. Romans have almost no ethnic identity, citizens of empire/city-state of rome slavery they practice is totally non-ethnic, enslave everybody not con ned to social class more sophisticated peoples, professors would work as slave professors not a question of hard labor. Galley slavery naval religious warfare explosion in med christian pirates of catholic religious orders. Ka a people being sold are mamelukes people doing the capturing are the political heirs of a group which extracted tribute from the. 10 million people followed islamic slave routes through north africa and east africa trade into north africa is very large and very harsh.
