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Piracy, sugar & slave trade
The Triangle Trade
At least two overlapping patterns of trans-Atlantic trade developed in the colonial era whereby profits from rum and other American and British manufactured goods sold on the west coast of Africa financed the purchase of enslaved Africans. Those slaves were then taken to the Americas, where their sale in turn funded the shipment of sugar, molasses, and other New World raw materials to the point of origin for the manufactured products.
Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/
One of the most famous pirates or buccaneer was Henry Morgan
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade
One word: racism
Watch the film and try to find the connection between privacy, sugar and slavery.
The Atlantic slave trade was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The shippers were, in order of scale, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, and North Americans. Most contemporary historians estimate that between 9.4 and 12 million Africans arrived in the New World, although the actual number of people taken from their homes is considerably higher.
Source: http://www.princeton.edu//
Sir Henry Morgan, (born 1635, Llanrhymney, Glamorgan [now in Cardiff], Wales—died August 25, 1688, probably Lawrencefield, Jamaica), Welsh buccaneer, most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Operating with the unofficial support of the English government, he undermined Spanish authority in the West Indies. Source: http://www.britannica.com/
Investing in sugar plantations
In 1674, Morgan took up his post as lieutenant governor under Governor Lord Vaughan. Overseeing the island's defenses, Morgan also further developed his vast sugar plantations.
Trading sugar was lucrative business but there was a problem. Growing sugar cane demanded an enormous workforce. The solution was transporting African slaves.