Commerce, Agriculture, and Slavery: Crash Course European History #8

In this episode of Crash Course European History, John Green takes a look at the ways that individuals’ lives were changing in the time span we’ve covered so far. Some people’s lives were improving, thanks to innovations in agriculture and commerce, and the technologies that drove those fields. Lots of people’s lives were also getting worse during this time, thanks to the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade. And these two shifts were definitely intertwined.

Sources:

Fuentes, Marisa. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

Seijas, Tatiana. Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Spielvogel, Jackson J. Western Civilization. 7th ed. Belmont: Thompson Wadsworth, 2009.