MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Indentured Servant, Triangular Trade, Atlantic World
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It is important to see the trade in this way rather than thinking europeans were forcing. It is argued that the elites of europe and the elites of africa working together for their own gain. This historian (adi) argued that there is no such thing as africa at this point, not a shared sense of african" identity hence it was possible for tribes to capture one another and sell them to the europeans. In the 15th and 16th century african rulers could not have predicted how devastating the slave trade would be. By the middle of the 16th century, the slave trade in africa could no longer for fill. Europeans labour requirements were triggering the expansion of the trade slaving. They brought guns and weaponry to the african coast to trade in exchange for slaves. The africans then used this themselves on other tribes to get more slaves to sell to the slave trade.
