HY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mocambos
29 Jan 2018
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Trade network added a plethora of novelties to european diets: sugar, chocolate, coffee, tea, bananas. Dominated by spain and portugal: brazil with 60,000 slaves, producing 15,000 tons of sugar in 1630, shift from precious metals to colonization, plantations. By 1700, caribbean and north america were new centers. Ever-increasing importation: conservatively, 11 million african slaves worked in the new world as slaves. Imported from west africa, mostly to caribbean and southern british colonies: 14 to 35 years old, died in passage. Weapons of the weak: resistance and rebellion several forms of resistance: stealing food, breaking tools feigning illness, debility. Escape: quilombos and mocambos in brazil, palmares (1605-1694), population 30,000. America: britain and france in north, spain and portugal in south, gender imbalance and intermarriage, conversion. Agricultural revolution: new investment, not new technology. Demographic explosion in northern europe: urbanization and the middle class.
