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who. The Arabs started the trading of slaves. what. It was the forced migration of millions of Africans to a new land and treated as merchandise. when. It started in the 5 th century C.E. and ended in 1750 A.D. Where. The New World. Why.

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  1. who • The Arabs started the trading of slaves.

  2. what • It was the forced migration of millions of Africans to a new land and treated as merchandise.

  3. when • It started in the 5th century C.E. and ended in 1750 A.D.

  4. Where • The New World.

  5. Why • Slavery happened because people of that time want to have cheap labor and make money off of it.

  6. how • The British won the right to trade slaves after beating Spain. • The Portuguese set up ports around the coast of Africa and paid African bounty hunters to round up slaves for them.

  7. "How Do We Know?" • It was supplied with a crop for export to distant European markets, but often did not grow its own food; it was completely reliant on international trade for points and for necessities • Political control over the system lay on another continent and in another kind of society • Its organization, the sugar plantation, was a forerunner of factory labor • The owners held “feudal” legal rights over the workers • Up to 1865 the entire import of Africans to Spanish America was 1,552,000 with 702,000 going to Cuba • For the entire period from 1640 to 1807 (when the British outlawed the slave trade) Curtin estimated 1,665,000 people were imported as slaves to the British West Indies

  8. "How do we know?" • Curtin estimated 1,600,2000 were imported between 1664 and 1838

  9. The diffrence between plantations and selfsuficient farms

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