Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0314 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Early Capitalism and the Slave Trade
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The idea
By the seventeenth century empires sought commodities, sugar, tobacco and coffee, rather than bullion. The anchor names this the first phase of capitalism: exchange for profit, reinvested for more, under states that protected property.
In practice
Europe controlling about a third of the globe by eighteen hundred.
Where people slip
The Atlantic slave trade was that system's crime, in the anchor's words. Unit six carries its results.
Your place on the trail
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