AMH-2091 Lecture 2: The African Slave Trade
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Europeans needed people to harvest sugar in the new world, europeans wouldn"t go, African slave trade was class based, not racial based slavery, like the. Mediterranean slave trade: anyone could become a slave, circumstantial (debt, etc. , indentured servitude, non-stigmatic, just something that happened. Trans-saharan trade: went through the desert, connected to europe + the middle east, may connect to india and asia through the silk road. Most likely to be traded on the trans-saharan route, very expensive b/c lifetime slaves, first group who are bought by the. State owned slaves: slaves could be owned by a king or queen, may be a higher ranking in a government position than a free man. Slaves were allowed to go home at night and be with their family and return to work the next morning. If your master is found guilty of abuse if taken to court, your sentence may be lowered, you may become free or he may become your slave.
