... the triangular voyage and sailors died at rates 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 ... to the Americas to work in the economies of the New World? In the past, historians have argued that Africans were a low-cost labor alternative to scarce Indian labor (scarce, because most Indian populations...

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... each enjoys the privileges and perquisites peculiar to his place, and at the same time contributes, by just that subordination, to the magnificence and happiness of the whole. ("Evolution- 2). The Anglo-Saxons contributed to this philosophy by creating their own "subordination-; this logical concept spread from generation to generation like ... on the oxen with a goad; he is now hoarse on account of the cold and his shouting. Teacher: What else do you do during the day? Ploughman: I do a great deal more. I must fill the bins of the oxen with the hay, water them, and carry off their dung...

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... to economics. Without this dissonance, there would have been no African slavery in the Americas. The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. The trans-Atlantic slave trade therefore ... slaves from Africa to Europe and the Atlantic islands had existed for half a century before Columbian contact, such that ten percent of the population of Lisbon was black in 1455,(2) and black slaves were common on large estates in the Portuguese Algarve. The first slave...

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