Western Civilization I / Unit 16 WC1 1523 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sugar and the Beginnings of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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The idea
Sugar needed plantations and labor, and enslaved Africans replaced dying Native Americans. The Atlantic trade began in the sixteenth century, the asiento on the witness, and grew with Caribbean sugar in the seventeenth. The Middle Passage killed the anchor's million.
In practice
The anchor's twelve to fifteen million, most to Brazil and the Caribbean.
Where people slip
The anchor's first racial slavery claim is its own.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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