![]() From small villages to city-states to empires and they were much too powerful for the Europeans to just conquer. The chains and ships bit is true as is the America part if you define America as America and not as 'Merica, but Africans were living in all kinds of conglomerations. One of the big misconceptions about slavery, or at least when I was growing up, is that Europeans somehow captured Africans, put them in chains, stuffed them on boats and then took them to the Americas. You are welcome to draw your own metaphorically resonant conclusions from this fact. So in a way, slavery is a very early by-product of a consumer culture that revolves around the purchase of goods that bring us pleasure, but not sustenance. Most of them were women who worked as household servants but many worked processing sugar, and sugar is of course a crop that African slaves later cultivated in the Caribbean.Ĭamera 2 side note none of the primary crops grown by slaves-sugar, tobacco, coffee-is necessary to sustain human life. Italian merchants imported thousands of Armenians, Circassian and Georgian slaves to Italy. ![]() The first real European slave trade began after the 4th Crusade in 1204 the crusade that you will remember as "The Crazy One". It's also worth noting that by the time Europeans started importing Africans into the Americas, Europe had a long history of trading slaves. Where Africans came from and went to changed over time, but in all 48% of slaves went to the Caribbean, and 41% to Brazil, although few Americans recognize this, relatively few slaves were imported to the U.S, only about 5% of the total. I know you're saying that looks like a very nice ship, I mean my God, its almost as big as South America, yeah, not to scale, and those who didn't die became property bought and sold like any commodity. Slavery is as old as civilization itself, although it is not as old as humanity thanks to our hunting and gathering foremothers, but the numbers involved in the Atlantic slave trade are truly staggering.įrom 1500 to 1880 CE somewhere between 10 and 12 million African slaves were forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas and about 15% of those people died during the journey. In fact, it is very near the top of the list of things that aren't funny, so today's episode is gonna be a little light on the jokes but, I'm gonna help you understand what pre-Civil War Americans often euphemistically refer to as "the peculiar institution." Hi, my name is John Green, this is Crash Course World History and today we're gonna talk about slavery. Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Other Models of Slavery: Greek, Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Muslim 7:26Ĭrash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at Living Conditions of Enslaved People 2:55 Learn more about the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Episode #1 of Crash Course Black American History here: ![]() So how do we reconcile that with modern life? In a desperate attempt at comic relief, Boba Fett makes an appearance. In some parts of the world, it is still going on. American slavery ended less than 150 years ago. Slavery has existed as long as humans have had civilization, but the Atlantic Slave Trade was the height, or depth, of dehumanizing, brutal, chattel slavery. John investigates when and where slavery originated, how it changed over the centuries, and how Europeans and colonists in the Americas arrived at the idea that people could own other people based on skin color. In which John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery.
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