1. Transatlantic Slavery and a Capitalist Modernity
... the transatlantic slave trade was the main contributor to the development of a capitalist modernity by looking at four major developments in the social and economic structure of the world from 1440-1870. The discovery and colonisation of the Americas, the exploitation of slaves to be used as a work force to generate commercial goods, the consumerist and industrial revolutions that followed and the formation of the foundations of the modern financial system. The transatlantic slave trade occurred between the ... 16th and early 20th Century, it was a truly horrific period ... ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate