HIST 2706 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Olaudah Equiano, Pearl Hunting, Triangular Trade
29 Nov 2016
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Henry wanted portugal to participate in the gold and spice trade, urged the king to send out ships to find the routes. First direct contact between europe and sub-saharan africa. Discover a series of islands on the way. 1471 > land on sao tome and principe, also uninhabited: sao tome settled in 1493, sugar and cotton plantations, sao tome became the single largest producer of sugar, huge source of wealth. Europeans take goods, exchange european commodities for slaves, sail them to the new world, use them to produce commodities (sugar, tobacco, cotton), commodities taken and sold in europe. Triangular trade system = europe > africa > new world > europe. Slave comes from slav > slavic peoples were a large source of slavery for arabs. Roman empire had slaves from modern britain and germany, aztecs kept slaves in the americas.
