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A 10 page paper which examines how the French influenced the notorious transatlantic slave trade, and specifically considers the role of the French slave ship, the Diligent. Bibliography lists 8 sources. TGslavetr.rtf
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The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas, David Eltis contends it was precisely this culturally motivated sense of Western superiority that paved the way for what became a booming
African slave trade (in Schmidt-Nowara, 2002). According to Eltis, had the intent of the slave trade by the European nations had been to achieve economic prosperity, then they could
have enslaved citizens who were much more accessible to work on plantations in the Americas (in Schmidt-Nowara, 2002). According to Eltis, "What prevented them from acting in
this rational manner were deeply ingrained cultural assumptions that inflected their economic decision-making with strong racial and gender biases... Given these cultural barriers to the pursuit of pure economic interest,
European merchants and planters were left with little choice but to turn to those whom they considered outsiders- black Africans" (Quoted Schmidt-Nowara, 2002, p. 210). While it is an
interesting theory, Eltiss conclusions are more style than substance because early on, European convicts had been transported to the Americas to work as slaves. The motives were economic, pure
and simple, and corresponded with the laws of supply and demand. As the demand for products increased, so, too, did the number of slave workers needed to supply this
demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese who began looking toward the west coast of Africa as a valuable trading post
(Behrendt, 1999). Ironically, just as the European slave trade of the late 1400s began dwindling, sugar plantations on the Atlantic islands of Madeira and S?o Thome were being established
(Behrendt, 1999). Because cultivating sugar is a arduous process, it would require a substantial increase in the workforce, and what better way to replenish it than through slave labor?
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