貴金屬投資技術(shù)分析英文版(62)-在線瀏覽
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【正文】 then delivered them for sale. ? Disease, maltreatment, suicide, and psychological depression all contributed to the average death rate of 1 out of 6 slaves on the Middle Passage. The heart of The Atlantic Circuit was a clockwise work of sea routes that used prevailing winds and currents to propel their ships. The increased demand for sugar led to an increase in the flow of slaves from Africa to the New World via the Middle Passage. For the 6 to 10 week voyage, slaves were transported in modified ships that had additional platforms on which the human cargo was packed as tightly as possible. Aboard slave ships there was a 11% 12% mortality rate for slaves and crew. Some deaths resulted from jumping overboard, depression, dysentery, smallpox and malaria. IV. Africa, the Atlantic, and Islam A. The Gold Coast and the Slave Coast ? European trade with Africa grew tremendously as a result of the slave trade. ? African merchants raised the price of slaves to meet the increasing demand. ? Exchange of slaves for firearms led to the dominance of the kingdoms of Dahomey, Oyo, and Asante. ? Slaves were usually prisoners of wars. Iron and copper bars were in demand in 17th century Africa, but textiles (60%) and guns (30%) had greatest demand. As the demand for African slaves rose, so too did their price. Throughout the 18th century, the goods needed to purchase a slave on the Gold Coast doubled and in some places quadrupled. Most of the slaves offered to European slave traders were prisoners of war, which were sold by the victors as their booty. B. The Bight of Biafra and Angola ? In Angola AfroPortuguese merchants brought trade goods to the interior and exchanged them for slaves, who were then transported to Portuguese middlemen who then sold the slaves to slave dealers so the slaves would be shipped to Brazil. ? In Angola, enslavement has been liked to environmental crises, like drought, and these refugees were traded by kings to slave dealers in exchange for Indian textiles and European goods that the kings used to cement old alliances, attract new followers and build a stronger state. The Bight of Biafra had no largescale wars and consequently few prisoners of war. Instead, kidnapping was the majo
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