POLS 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Royal African Company, Cod Fisheries, Triangular Trade

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3125
• Professor: Glenn Goshulak

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Foreign vs. domestic trade: chartered monopoly companies, colonial trade system, result of economic and wind/sea patterns. Europeans and the slave trade: before 1500, europe not deeply involved in slave trade, after 1500s. Special relationships between african rulers and european traders. Slaves for guns: w. african rulers instrumental. Trade for guns to expand their territories: has effects on economy and politics in west africa. Europeans lack local knowledge: use middlemen, capture and deliver slaves to boats on the coast. Leads to complex system of groups and interests: numbers of slaves taken disputed. London: one of main trading centers: british economy: reaps benefits. Atlantic colonies to 1763 evolution of a landmass supporting international fishery to a set of colonies capable of supporting permanent populations. Newfoundland: economics is key even though powerful interests in britain were able to delay the process, the economics of it prevailed (despite imperial policy: ma(cid:396)iti(cid:373)es: eu(cid:396)opea(cid:374) settle(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)as (cid:373)o(cid:396)e due to b(cid:396)itai(cid:374)"s st(cid:396)ategi(cid:272) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)est"s (cid:448)is a (cid:448)is the.