HIST 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Atlantic Slave Trade, Olaudah Equiano, John Woolman
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1789: the interesting narrative of the life of olaudah equiano, or gustavus vassa, the. Estimated 7. 7 million africans transported to the new world between 1492 and. Atlantic slave trade would later be condemned by statesmen and general opinion as a crime against humanity. First consumer goods in international trade were produced by slaves: sugar, rice, coffee, and tobacco. Carried british manufactured goods to africa and the colonies, colonial products including tobacco, indigo, sugar, and rice to europe, and slaves from africa to the new world. For free colonists and europeans, freedom meant in part the power and right to enslave others. John woolman, quaker abolitionist: the idea of slavery being connected with the black color, and liberty with the white . A few african societies opted out of the atlantic slave trade. Central to west african society, a source of wealth for african merchants and of power for newly emerging african kingdoms.
