SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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European factory owner
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West African leader
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European banker
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European factory worker
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Dutch became the foremost traders of enslaved people during parts of the 1600s, and in the following century English and French merchants controlled about half of the transatlantic slave trade, taking a large percentage of their human cargo from the region of West Africa between the Sénégal and Niger rivers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Colonial authorities and landowners forced them to serve as slave labour in the Caribbean and in North and South America. A pattern emerged called “triangular trade.” European merchants brought trade goods from Europe to Africa. In Africa, they exchanged their goods for enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to real estate and personal estate values in the 1860 U.S. Census, the overwhelming majority of employers who hired the enslaved were lower and middle class.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the so-called triangular trade that ensued from European colonization of Africa, slaves were purchased in West Africa, shipped to the Americas to produce cotton etc. The cotton was then shipped to Europe and converted into textiles.