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Late Eighteenth Century British North America
2,918 words... tes often greater than for all other overseas trades combined. Slave mortality usually increased during the last stages of a particularly long passage when there were shortages of food and water. The Atlantic crossing lasted three to five weeks from West African trading sites such as the Gambia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone Rivers. Near the equator, in regions such as the Bights of Benin and Biafra (near present-day Nigeria), the voyage to the Americas took several months. A few French ships tr...
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Attempts To Induce Free Labour
690 wordsHow effective were the attempts to induce free labourers to continue to work on sugar plantations after 1838? After Emancipation in 1833 and the end of Apprenticeship in 1838, the slaves were completely free, but the planters were upset. The planters needed labour to work on the sugarcane estates. They had to develop a scheme to get labour and not to force the ex-slaves too much at the same time. This essay will show the attempts made to induce free labourers to continue to work on the estates a...
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Sao Paulo Wage Labor
2,018 wordsAugust 10, 2000 The sound of soft rain on the window pane woke me up today, a ahhhh, August in Sao Paulo... After a strong cup of Brazilian coffee, I made my way to Parque Ibirapuera to see the Mostra do Redescobrimento exhibit that commemorates 500 years of Brazilian history since the Portuguese arrival. Redescobrimento I wonder if this rediscovery is intended to overturn the power relations of the first discovery? I keep asking myself, what does the re-discovery reveal and re-veil? I spent mos...
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Slave Labor Slave Holding
885 wordsCapitalism: The cause of slavery in the American South Essay submitted by Unknown The American South, had a social system which was distinct in many ways. There was an economy relative to the region, where class structure and a system of racial differences which caused the South to become unique to the rest of the nation. Historians such as James Henrietta have said that Capitalism was the cause of all evil within the American South. American Capitalism defined by Max Weber is a greed for gain, ...
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Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
1,996 wordsBy 1790 slavery was on the decline in America. Apart from tobacco, rice, and a special strain of cotton that could be grown only in very few places, the South really had no money crop to export. Tobacco was a land waster, depleting the soil within very few years. Land was so cheap that tobacco planters never bothered to reclaim the soil by crop rotation they simply found new land farther west. The other crops rice, indigo, corn, and some wheat made for no great wealth. Slaves cost something, not...
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