HISB30H3 Lecture 3: September 15
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Tobacco, rice, cotton) for an export market, production carried out largely on scattered plantations worked by forced labour (e. g. Plantation society: a society dominated by relatively large landholders controlling relatively large, subservient workforces to produce a staple crop for export (the economy of such a society is dominated by plantation agriculture) West africans were being captured and shipped to brazil. Plantation slavery cropped up in europe during the expansion of europe. Free labour are basically slaves that have the freedom to move around and you they work for wages. Capitalism: production of commodities to make a profit. Cotton fueled the 26095 during the industrial revolution. The russians/eastern europeans had surfs (which got really popular) In mexico and peru, they had encomienda systems: encomienda systems: a system of labour tribute, under which a spanish settler with the title of encomendero had the right to claim labor from a particular. Indian district for a stated period of time.
