HIST 2003 Lecture 5: Lesson 5 Caribbean Sugar and Slave Trade

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2003
• Professor: Schieffler

Document Summary

Lesson 5 - the caribbean, sugar, and the first beginnings of the slave trade. Starts when europeans (1400"s) leave europe and are out in the atlantic exploring the coast of africa. Plantation agriculture system = growing sugar which is the key crop to drive the atlantic world, slave trade, trade between africa, europe, and the u. s. 1600"s in brazil: established colony, producing sugar, using indian/african labor, english, french, and spanish are also growing sugar now, slaves didn"t last too long on sugar plantations in the caribbean. Slaves are war captives, prisoners of war: they don"t know what to do with them, some are kidnapped/criminals. Africans have the power in this situation, demanding speci c resources, have the advantage because they can demand speci cs because they have the slaves.