Climate and the Slave Trade

Climate and the Slave Trade

Agenda

• Lecture: Climate and Slave Trade
• Discussion Marks
• Group work: in-classpresentations

1. read excerpt of Parker’sGlobal Crisison Blackboard
2. read Marks 86-96
3. Quiz #6 due next Wed:questions from both

New World’s Impact onAfrica:

• 1)Short-term: new foodcropspopulationgrowth
• 2)Medium-term: massiveslave-trade to populateAmerica
• 3)Long-term: Africa becamesource for raw materialexploitation

Short Term: Mighty Maize

• Corn imported by early 16thc.
• Grown like other African grains
• Population growth in West Africa

• by 17thcentury = rainforest clearance

• Millet/sorghum important in drier savannahs, bananasin highlands
• Other New World crops: peanuts, chilies, tomatoes,manioc, tobacco

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

-fashionable African footmen/maids

Medium-Term: Labor

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

• fashionable African footmen/maids
• Portugal after ½ century slavery

= 150,000 slaves

Medium-Term: Labor

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

• fashionable African footmen/maids
• Portugal after ½ century slavery

= 150,000 slaves

Early on Spain/

Portugal uses

slaves for urban

and mine labor

Medium-Term: Labor

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

• fashionable African footmen/maids
• Portugal after ½ century slavery

= 150,000 slaves

Early on Spain/

Portugal uses

slaves for urban

and mine labor

1540s: Portuguese

imported slaves (Brazil)

Medium-Term: Labor

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

• fashionable African footmen/maids
• Portugal after ½ century slavery

= 150,000 slaves

1580s:dominant

Early on Spain/feature

Portugal uses

slaves for urban

and mine labor

1540s: Portuguese

imported slaves (Brazil)

Medium-Term: Labor

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

• fashionable African footmen/maids
• Portugal after ½ century slavery

= 150,000 slaves

1640s: Britain

importedto Caribbean

1580s:dominant

Early on Spain/feature

Portugal uses

slaves for urban

and mine labor

1540s: Portuguese

imported slaves (Brazil)

Medium-Term: Labor

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

• fashionable African footmen/maids
• Portugal after ½ century slavery

= 150,000 slaves

1640s: Britain

importedto Caribbean

1580s:dominant

Early on Spain/feature

Portugal uses17th century: slavery adapted to tobacco

slaves for urbanplantations in North America

and mine labor-Brits/French/Dutch tryEuropean laborers, but

1540s: PortugueseAfrican slavery success in

imported slaves (Brazil)tropics exported elsewhere

Medium-Term: Labor

15th/early 16thcenturies:Portugueseraids

• fashionable African footmen/maids
• Portugal after ½ century slavery18thcentury: slavery adapted

= 150,000 slavesfor cotton

1640s: Britain

importedto Caribbean

1580s:dominant

Early on Spain/feature

Portugal uses17th century: slavery adapted to tobacco

slaves for urbanplantations in North America

and mine labor-Brits/French/Dutch tryEuropean laborers, but

1540s: PortugueseAfrican slavery success in

imported slaves (Brazil)tropics exported elsewhere

Medium-Term: Labor

Medium-Term: Labor

• 450 years11.7 million slaves(Atlantic trade)
• Most captured by Africans
  

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