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Slave Trade
Benefits of the Slave Trade
Economy
Money flowing from plantations went back into the economy. Buildings were also created
Education
New schools being constructed
Primary schools being constructed and more government funding for educational facilities (Fochabers)
Industry
The Industrial Revolution was helped by slaves and the materials they made
Luxury Items
Tobacco (Virginia), Sugar (Barbados), Cotton (The Deep South) were all cultivated by slaves, and then were sent off to consumers in Europe via the Triangular Trade
Jobs
Shupbuilders in Liverpool, Fisheries in Scotland
Disadvantages of the Slave Trade
African populations were lowering (about 90,000 a year)
Instability in African nations (as seen by the many abandoned and burned out villages from this time period)
Violence increased as tribes turned on each other
The Invaders also brought plagues
Typhus
Small Pox
Tuberculosis
Dysentery
Syphilis
A shift in power from the slave trade as coastal tribes gained more power as they befriended the Europeans
Triangular Trade
Textiles, Rum and manufactured goods to Africa
Slaves to America
Sugar, cotton and tobacco to Europe
For the wealthy Europeans (London/Paris/Amsterdam)
For Plantation work (Virginia/Caribbean)
To be traded with the tribes (Benin)
Who Was Running The Slave Trade
The Europeans
Danes
Catarina Gustmeyer
Founded the Danish Guinea Company and one of the most prominent women in the Copenhagen elite
Peter Oxholm
Governor-General of the Danish West Indies
Zacharias Allewelt
Captain for the Asiatic Company
Portuguese
Antonio De Elvas
Merchant and investor into pepper farms
Manuel Preto
A bandeirante and coloniser
Nuno Tristao
First European to reach Guinea
Dutch
Dirck Wilre
Dutch smuggler and slave-trader who worked as Director-General of the Dutch Gold Coast
Pieter Woortman
Administrator of the Dutch West India Company
Johan van Scharphuizen
Coloniser, Judge and Colonial governer in Suriname
English
Henry Ellis
Explorer and Governor of Nova Scotia and Georgia
James Habersham
Explorer and Merchant
Rosetta Smith
Afro-Trinidadian slave-trader and astute businesswoman
French
The O'Shiell Sisters (Agnes, Mary and Anne)
French-Irish sisters and prominent Nantes slave traders
Simone Brocard
Wealthy mixed-race Haitian who sold slaves, including to black people living in Haiti
Joseph Potier
Brigadeer and Slave Trader
Spanish
Alonso Ojeda
Explorer
Pedro Blanco
Sugar mill owner in Cuba
Eufrosina Hinard
Louisiana woman who allowed her slaves to buy their own freedom
