Also, many Africans knew about farming so they would be accustomed to the work involved. Third, Africans were strangers to the Americas and would know no places to hide from slavery. From 1500 to 1870, when the slave trade in the Americas finally ended, about 9.5 million Africans had been imported as slaves. The Spanish first began the practice of bringing Africans to the Americas. However, the Portuguese—looking for workers for sugar plantations in Brazil—increased the demand for slaves.
Chapter 20 Study Guide Vocabulary: 1. Factories - Portuguese trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce 2. El Mina - most important of early Portuguese trading factories in the forest zone of Africa. 3. Royal African Company - chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia 4. triangular trade - commerce linking Africa, the new world colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar, and tobacco transported to Europe 5.
The only type found in the Hawaiian Islands is Pandanus tectorius. These trees are found almost everywhere in the islands except at the higher elevations. Today they are seen growing mainly as ornamental trees in private yards or public parks. If one goes to any of the beaches along the north shore of Kauai, one will most likely encounter Lauhala groves. The trees have adventitious roots that bud out from the trunk, and the female trees appear to bear pineapples.
Dimock, provided the world with a firsthand account of what Spanish Cuba was like during the mid-19the century. Joseph J. Dimock had married into a family who owned a Cuban sugar plantation. Dimock was one of many Americans who showed interest in Cuba, and in February and March 1859, Dimock traveled to Cuba and recorded his experience within his diary. His itinerary on the island took him from Havana to Regla, Matanzas, Cardenas, and Recreo and then all along the north coast of the provinces of Havana and Matanzas. Through his diary Dimock reveals the island’s lush tropical beauty as well as his political and racial views, which were shared by many Americans at the time.
Local African kings scrutinized the European trading posts that they permitted along the Gold and Slave Coasts and collected profitable rents and fees from these traders and merchants. Europeans established colonial footholds in only two places--Angola and Cape
What early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, fishing was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies, people lived on small farms and were selfsufficient. In the few small cities and among the larger plantations of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, some necessities and all luxuries were imported in return for tobacco, rice, and indigo exports. To conclude, economics was the most important role in the establishment of European colonies.
Abstract This paper gives a comprehensive overview of a sociological approach to understanding the people of Haiti by explaining their culture, ways of life, beliefs, and problems they face daily. There are many different problems in Haiti, but this paper focuses on the poverty that is in Haiti affecting eighty percent of the population. Word Count: 53 The Struggles of Poverty in the Culture of Haiti Haiti is a beautiful island nation that is part of Hispaniola. Haiti started out as a French colony flourishing with wealth from sugarcane and coffee. People flocked everywhere to this paradise.
Many were mostly sent to the plantations such as the sugar plantations this was mainly in Brazil and in the Caribbean’s. Seasoned slaves were preferred because they were already disciplined by their masters. Finally Africans survived the horrible treatment, and the conditions the most brutal of this was the Atlantic slave trade. When we look back at the struggles that the African Americans went through it testifies to humility and humanity as well as the spirit which is the corner stone as well as the middle of the African American
Slaves were used for a number of different crops but because tobacco was extremely labor-intensive African slave labor was used. In the British West Indies sugar cane was popular. 5. How was the life of an urban, farm and plantation slave different from one another? For slaves working on farms, the work was a little less tedious than tobacco cultivation, but no less demanding.
Chinese Jamaicans are descendants of Chinese who were brought to Jamaica as indentured servants. Jamaicans on the other hand are African descendants brought to Jamaica primarily to work in the sugar cane plantations, as a result of the slave trade. The historical importance of slavery and indentured servitude lies in its role as a major determinant of Jamaica's race relations and in the transformation of Jamaican/Chinese cultural events and the creation of a unique Chinese Jamaican culture in Jamaica, which is especially evident in food and music. Although I am 3rd generation removed from China and (???) removed from Africa, I am still connected to the larger diaspora of the Chinese Jamaican community.