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

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