1. Transatlantic Slavery and a Capitalist Modernity
... in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. By the 1500's the monarch was earning over 2 million reis from the slave trade through taxation alone5 and so ... consumers widened greatly when workers on farms and in factories began to earn a wage and purchase popular goods such as sugar, tobacco, coffee and chocolate. This early consumerist market is a clear foundation of the capitalist modernity we are aware of today, as the increased availability of such ...
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