Chapter 14 (second half)

Commerce in People: The Atlantic Slave Trade

  • None had more profound or enduring human consequences than the Atlantic slave trade.
  • 12.5 million people from African societies were shipped across the Atlantic in the infamous Middle Passage.
  • 1.8 million died during the transatlantic journey.
  • This African diaspora injected into these new societies issues of race that endure still in the 20th centuries
  • Slavery became a metaphor for many kinds of social oppression, quite different from plantation slavery, in the centuries that followed.
  • Workers protested the slavery of wage labor, colonized people rejected the slavery of imperial domination and feminists sometimes defined patriarchy as a form of slavery.
  • The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas represented the most recent large scale expression of a very widespread human practice- owning and exchange of human beings.
  • Slavery took form in many places, into their owners' households, or communities. Children could inherit their slave status.
  • Slavery in the Americas was the immense size of traffic in slaves – led economy
    • sugar, tobacco, cotton.

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