HIST 2055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Pseudoscience, Paternalism
Document Summary
Slave trade began as something different than what most people think of when we think back to the times of slavery. Slavery wasn"t so much of something about race, where as it was something designed to punish captured convicts. Some prisoners of war even sold themselves into the slave trade because they were so poor. In the early 1400"s, european explorers made their way to africa, where they found an abundance of resources like gold, spice, and above all, people of a new race and culture. The front-runner of the slave trade was portugal, who soon set up slave trading posts in places like sierra leone, congo, and liberia. By the year 1550, the slave trade had expanded to the western hemisphere where european empires had come into nations like brazil and the. Soon slave trade was the most profitable form of trade.
