european slavery around the world philip fong 23
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European Slavery around the world
Philip Fong 23
France in Caribbean
Saint Domingue (Haiti) the most important
About 500,000 slaves there in 1789
Provided labor for sugar, coffee, and cotton plantations.
France in Americas
New France, or Canada
Find little valuable metals.
Fish, valuable furs.
Didn’t enslave Native Americans, only trade. (Hunters)
Spanish colonies in Americas
First country to successfully settle in Americas.
Mainly mining gold and silver.
Sugar production in Brazil.
Commercial Agriculture.
Great Britain in India
East India Company
Jewel in Britain’s crown
Export raw material such as cotton, jewels, and tea
Scramble for Africa
France in West Africa
Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin, Guinea, Ivory Coast
Grew cash crops such as cotton, groundnuts.
Great Britain in South Africa
1800s British took over the Cape Area
Export diamond and gold to England
European influence in East Africa
1500s Portugal built 1st European forts in East Africa.
1800s European powers such as Great Britain, Spain, France scramble territory in the region.
Mainly mining. (most profit)
Cash crops include coffee, cotton, tea, and sisal(durable plant fiber for rope and twine).
Colonial Africa
Thank You
References
Pictures:
http://www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/article/173971-blame-it-france
http://www.lynchslair.com/2015/the-end-does-not-justify-the-mean/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire
http://sites.psu.edu/afr110/2014/10/08/history-repeats-itself/
http://www.lib.niu.edu/2004/iht1110429.html
http://empathosnationenterprises.com/Consulate/EN-Library/Black-Studies/afcolony.html
http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/gallery/photos/21.html
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist260/World%20War%20I/album/The%20War%20of%20Nations/slides/colonialTroops.html
References
http://sites.psu.edu/afr110/2014/10/08/history-repeats-itself/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies
http://www.historywiz.com/slavery-frenchrev.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#Europe
Holt World History- Ramirez, Stearns, Wineburg
Holt World Geography Today- Sager, Helgran