FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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peasants
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indentured servants
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slaves
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explorers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many slaves were engaged in construction of roads and railroads. Most slave labor, however, was used in planting, cultivating, and harvesting cotton, hemp, rice, tobacco, or sugar cane.
Detailed explanation-2: -Prominent crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, and species in the genus Indigofera, used to produce indigo dye. The longer a crop’s harvest period, the more efficient plantations become.
Detailed explanation-3: -Recruited as an inexpensive source of labor, enslaved Africans in the United States also became important economic and political capital in the American political economy. Enslaved Africans were legally a form of property-a commodity.
Detailed explanation-4: -You can thank enslaved Africans. They brought the kola nut – one of the main parts of Coca-Cola – to what is now the United States. West Africans chewed the nut for its caffeine. Enslaved Africans also brought watermelon, okra, yams, black-eyed peas and some peppers.