Atlantic Trading System

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Atlantic Trading System

• Triangular Trade
• Atlantic Trading System is a trade route that involved both the New World and the Old World.
• Involved three main continents:
• Africa - Enslaved people
• Europe - Manufactured goods
• New World/America - Cash crop
• Technologies:
• Special sail boats that are built based on the number of people

Europe - Manufactued goods

America- cash crop

Columnbian Exchange

Africa - Enslaved people

Middle Passage

Race-based Slavery

Race-based slavery is a system of slavery that only enslaves people of color and treats them as properties.

• How did it start?

Race-based Slavery

At first, slavery used prisoners of war as enslaved people for labor forces. However, one can be free by converting to Christianity. Due to the sacred resources of labor forces, especially in the colonized territories in the New World where enslaved Native Americans were dying because of diseases, Europeans developed the ideas of slavery based on race/characteristics, primary skin color, which solved most to all of their problems.

Esteban Montejo

Who is he?

Story of Esteban Montejo

"An Afro-Cuban, an Author, a runaway enslaved person"

Biography

The strongest gods are African. I tell you it’s certain they could fly and they did what they liked with their witchcraft. I don’t know how they permitted slavery. The truth is, I start thinking, and I can’t make head or tail of it. To my mind it all started with the scarlet handkerchiefs, the day they crossed the wall. There was an old wall in Africa, right around the coast, made of palm bark and magic insects which stung like the devil. For years they frightened away all the whites who tried to set foot in Africa. It was the scarlet which did it for the Africans; both the kings and the rest surrendered without a struggle. When kings saw that the whites – I think the Portuguese were the first — were taking out these scarlet handkerchiefs as if they were waving, they told the blacks, “Go on then, go and get a scarlet handkerchief,” and the blacks were so excited by the scarlet they ran down to the ships like sheep and there they were captured. The Negro has always liked scarlet. It was the fault of this color that they put them in chains and sent them to Cuba. After that they couldn’t go back to their own country. That is the reason for slavery in Cuba.

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impact of the trading system

To Esteban Montejo, the Atlantic Trading System is something that took away his family, leaving him to be alone in Flor de Sague. It is a 'demonic' thing, trading manufactured goods that can kill, to the government and ruling classes to trade for the freedom of the lower classes. However, it also brings him the courage to escape, the courage to seek for his liberty, as well as the will to fight in the Revolutionary Forces. Esteban Montejo believed that by joining the Revolutionary Forces, he can fight for the demands of equal rights for Afro-Cubans.

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