AM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jedediah Strutt, Atlantic Slave Trade, Samuel Slater
7 Sep 2016
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Pre-chapter 1:before the industry- merchandizing of textiles from hand to machines (not in textbook) Hand spun yarn- raw materials: cotton, linen, ax, hemp, wool, silk. Lament from cocoon of silk worms: england- mid 1700"s. Textile production from cotton, ax & wool. Growing demand for textiles in europe: textile labor force. 1562 captain john hawkins made rst known voyage to africa for transatlantic slave trade. The exact number of british ships that took part in the slave trade will probably nerve be known. Merchants in britain dispatched about 10,000 voyages to africa for slaves. Historians, professor david richardson, calculated that british ships carried 3. 4 million more enslaved africans to the americas. Age 14, entered 7 year apprentice agreement with jedediah strutt. No ability to rise in strutt"s company because of several sons who would take over business. 1790- bounty was offered to english textile workers to come to u. s.
