HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cotton Gin, Indentured Servant, Manning Clark
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03:02: many historians tried to tie the divisions that led to the civil. War as anything but slavery because slavery was a big morality issue. Manning clark: believed it is necessary to feel pity or love toward all of your subjects; it helps you understand where they come from; important to forgive them of their sins in the past, history of slavery. Someone captured in war, convicted of a crime, or needed to pay debts was enslaved but were able to maintain certain rights or high positions; slavery not passed onto children: europe. Between lords and serfs (peasants: conditions of slavery. Transportation of sugar, rice, and tobacco over to europe. About 12 million brought to america"s shores from 1440-mid 1800s. European traders sailed down to western africa and trade goods for human cargo (slaves: african and european trade. African wars with european weapons: african kings would attack neighbors with european weapons to get more slaves to trade with europeans.
