1. Transatlantic Slavery and a Capitalist Modernity
Their success, however, leads to a "ripple effect" across Europe and Portugal's position and power was soon threatened and diminished by Northern European countries such as the Netherlands and France. ... France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he ...
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