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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