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African slavery and African crops mind map - Coggle Diagram
African slavery and African crops mind map
Sorghum(Milo)
One of the most versatile crops in the world
Domesticated near Ethiopia
Benjamin Franklin(introduced the first grain sorghum crop to US)
Function: feed, food, fuel
30%-35% for the ethanol production
Color: white, pale yellow, deep reds, purples and browns
Millet
Main food in India
Function: food and feed
The first domesticated cereal grain
Staple food of India and Africa
The grain of China before rice
African slavery
Place: North American Colonies, Central America, South America and the Caribbean
Time: 17th to 19th more prone to enslavement
Europeans set out to colonize
In search of conquest and capital
Looking for wealth(gold, silver, land, farmland, commercial crops)
Purpose: Increase european power and fatten the royal coffers
No labor costs
Make native people to death and cut limbs
Yield high profits: sugar, tobacco, rice, cotton
Colonists extracts slaves
UK control: the first enslaved africans arrived in North American
16th in Caribbean and Latin America
15th: the Portuguese began enslaving africans
Why africans
Purpose: make money for royal families and wealthy colonists(No pay for the labor)
Malaria en Europe
Greater ability to control enslaved populations
West Africa was near the sea ports
