Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Research Paper
By the 1450’s cotton became a crucial crop in India since demand was high throughout
Eurasia. The Mughal empire used cotton mills to increase efficiency, and these mills required many peasant workers. These jobs were hard, but actually paid more than small- scale farming. In the 1590’s peasant labor in the vast region of Siberia intensified. Many workers were involved in the fur trade or the mining of copper and silver. Unlike India
Russia utilized a system of serfdom, in which many poor serfs were bound to a property owned by a wealthy landlord who oversaw them.
2. The slave trade from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean long predated the arrival of Europeans. A trans-saharan trade route connected to the Nile River was utilized by Arabs to move people from Sub-Saharan Africa to the …show more content…
Initially this role was filled by indentured servants who traded 7 years of service in return for being brought to America, but they proved insufficient and prone to rebellion.
The plantations began buying slaves who were captured and forcibly brought to America from West Africa. These slaves faced horrendous conditions, but proved relatively cheap resistant to diseases and so massive numbers were purchased, in turn fueling the slave trade. 4. The encomienda system was designed instated in 1512 by the Spanish in the Americas and the Philippines. Under this system commanders called encomederos were given a specific number of Native Americans who they nominally were intended to protect and convert to Christianity in return for the people’s wealth and labor. This already barbaric system was often abused to the point where it resembled chattel slavery. Chattel slavery was the form of forced labor present in antebellum America where the slaves are legally property of their owners. If your parents were slaved you are born a slave and remain one for your whole life, unless freed by a
Eurasia. The Mughal empire used cotton mills to increase efficiency, and these mills required many peasant workers. These jobs were hard, but actually paid more than small- scale farming. In the 1590’s peasant labor in the vast region of Siberia intensified. Many workers were involved in the fur trade or the mining of copper and silver. Unlike India
Russia utilized a system of serfdom, in which many poor serfs were bound to a property owned by a wealthy landlord who oversaw them.
2. The slave trade from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean long predated the arrival of Europeans. A trans-saharan trade route connected to the Nile River was utilized by Arabs to move people from Sub-Saharan Africa to the …show more content…
Initially this role was filled by indentured servants who traded 7 years of service in return for being brought to America, but they proved insufficient and prone to rebellion.
The plantations began buying slaves who were captured and forcibly brought to America from West Africa. These slaves faced horrendous conditions, but proved relatively cheap resistant to diseases and so massive numbers were purchased, in turn fueling the slave trade. 4. The encomienda system was designed instated in 1512 by the Spanish in the Americas and the Philippines. Under this system commanders called encomederos were given a specific number of Native Americans who they nominally were intended to protect and convert to Christianity in return for the people’s wealth and labor. This already barbaric system was often abused to the point where it resembled chattel slavery. Chattel slavery was the form of forced labor present in antebellum America where the slaves are legally property of their owners. If your parents were slaved you are born a slave and remain one for your whole life, unless freed by a