historical slavery

What Was The Role Of Slavery In The Atlantic System?

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What Was The Role Of Slavery In The Atlantic System? Slaves were considered cargo by the ship owners, to be transported to the Americas as quickly and cheaply as possible, there to be sold to labor in coffee, tobacco, cocoa, cotton and sugar plantations, gold and silver mines, rice fields, construction industry, cutting timber for

How Was Slavery Different In The Caribbean Than America?

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How Was Slavery Different In The Caribbean Than America? In the Caribbean, many plantations held 150 slaves or more. In the American South, only one slaveholder held as many as a thousand slaves, and just 125 had over 250 slaves. How was slavery in the Caribbean? Between 1662 and 1807 Britain shipped 3.1 million Africans