How Was Capitalism a Cause of the Salve Trade and Slavery? The Atlantic was than an example of the Capitalism. English investors gave funds to stock companies would then hire a crew and then send the ships to Africa where they would trade their African slaves. The ships would then transport the slaves to the Americas where they would sell their human cargo and purchase American goods. The ships could yet return to England.
The main reason why the portuguese enslaved aficans was so they can have men to work on plantations. During colonial period the demand of suger, tobacco, cotten and other agricultural products increased. When this happened so did the demand of workers to work on the plantations especulay in Brazil. One of the best workers were ones that worked for free and also immune to diseases from the new world, these people were African slaves. The slaves were the the main workers of this time and there were many of them in Brazil, “about 812,000 Slaves,” (Robert Conrad pg.
For its part the New World provided a host of sustaining crops that could be cultivated in Europe, such as potatoes, maize (corn), tomatoes, squashes, and varieties of beans; foods that appealed to European tastes, such as cacao (chocolate), avocados, and chilies; and other products that served a growing demand, such as tobacco, indigo, and cotton. Few New World animals of consequence migrated to Europe during this period, but possibly the venereal disease syphilis first reached Europe from the Americas. Before and since the publication of Crosby’s work, students of European expansion have not neglected his factors but have also pointed to the interregional migration of people and their cultures and metals (iron from Europe and silver and gold from the Americas). The student must discuss the impact of the Columbian exchange on the population and economies of Europe. For example, this might include the effects of transferred food crops on diet and population growth in Europe, potatoes and corn as factors in the agricultural revolution, the economic effect of cane sugar and tobacco production on European economies (e.g., wealth produced by the New World plantation systems for Europe, the stimulation that agriculture gave to international commerce and later industrialization, the need for large-scale labor for sugar
Slavery was such a vital part in the cultivation of cash crops such as sugarcane that it was introduced to North America with its colonization. The availability of land combined with the growing demand of sugarcane in Europe quickly created an insatiable demand for African slaves, whom, by happenstance, tended to be suited well for work in the warm and tropical environments of the Americas. These Africans at first became indentured servants; nevertheless, the growing arrogance of the white man in his spiritual superiority and the need for even more labor led to the swift decline of the indentured servant. When other alternatives to slavery such as cheap white labor and convict laborers failed to deliver the desired results, the prevalent abstraction of a racially-based slave system finally emerged in the 1680’s. Furthermore, slave uprisings would also play a role in the shaping of the structure of slavery.
Both the Americas and Africa were affected environmentally and demographically by the Columbian exchange in ways that benefitted and hurt them between 1492 and 1750. Environmentally, the Americas and Africa had an increase in crops and the production of them. New crops like wheat were brought to the Americas by Europe, allowing more growth, while other staple crops like maize were introduced to Africa by the Americas, creating more growth in the environment from the fields in which they produced all of the new crops as well. Demographically, both the Americas and Africa had some decreases in parts of their population. With the introduction of diseases brought over from Europe, many Native Americans were killed by illnesses they had never
This in turn, lead to the surviving Natives to get infected with the diseases the Africans were carrying, like yellow fever and malaria. This was all in the pursuit in gaining wealth, be it in agriculture, or slave trade. All this, and Africa got off pretty well disease-wise. America and Africa both contributed to bringing over crops to each other during the Columbian Exchange. Before Columbus, the Americas had plenty of domesticated plants.
Expansion of the country, invention of the cotton gin, and greater demand for cotton were all contributing factors to the changes in the slave population in early America. However as the country was expanding westward, slavery became the main issue. Which states would allow slavery and which opted out of slavery? These issues the federal government took on and began overriding state laws, all these issue pushed the country into civil war. However, what part did slave narratives play in gaining support of the banning of slavery?
Africa contained a great number of natural rescources valuable to Europe such as: cotton, palm oil, rubber, ivory, gum, peanuts, bananas, coffee, cocoa, zinc, lead, coal, and copper. These valuable raw materials were used to create products that Europe could export and trade for a huge profit. These products included: fabrics, soaps, candles, tires, drugs, food products, electrical wiring, electrical insulation, rope and twine, jewelry, and many others. The invasion of Africa yielded many valuable economic advancements, and created a logical reason for Europe to invade. European imperialism in Africa was partly due to rivalries between the different European countries involved, with Britain, Germany and France the dominant powers.
“Because of the worldwide demand for wool was growing rapidly, landowners were converting their land from fields for crops to pastures for sheep” (Brinkley, 2010). With land plots decreasing for crops and the effects of a war-torn Europe upon them, migration to new lands became more and more enticing. As migration took place, new land was obtained. With the new land came an expansion in economic incentives, from new trade to new crops. “Second, the discovery of the Americas provided the Old World with vast quantities of relatively unpopulated land well-suited for the cultivation of certain crops that were in high demand in Old World markets.” (Nunn & Qian, 2010).
The first part of " The Triangular Slave Trade " route which was the voyage from Europe to Africa . Africans and Europeans slave traders bought enslaved Africans in exchanged for goods shipped from Europe .The second part of the " Triangular Slave Trade " was the voyage from Africa to America . This was often called " The Middle Passage " . This was the part of the triangle where enslaved Africans were forced and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the American people. The Africans that were sold were to work on plantations .