HIST 1007 : History Notes Test 2
Document Summary
The scale of profits is greater then ever before: new attitudes, depersonalized land, before, land was who you were. In modern capitalism, land is just something to sell: depersonalized labor, before, your job was part of your identity, you didn"t change jobs. In modern capitalism, you basically sell your labor. Sugar growers built plantations: sugar is very, very bulky. This dictates the plantation lifestyle: 1 worker= 1 acre of a sugar farm, because sugar is bulky, its hard to transport. Hence why sugar pushed factories in the era: sugar becomes the 1st item of mass consumption, the transformation of slavery, africans sold africans to europeans. Maroons: they set up their own republic called palmares, ironically enough, they owned slaves, triangular trade, slaves to america, raw goods to europe. Processed goods to africa: also, slaves to the caribbean, molasses to new.
