Understanding Colonial Slave Trade
Understanding Colonial Slave Trade from an Economic and Biological Standpoint
This article is interesting in that from their viewpoint slavery is justified by some principles of mercantilism, although with arguments made by the opposition of slave labor which outlined that using slave labor was a money making scheme that didn’t directly benefit England, it still powered on. With information the colonists had on the African people it seems that the colonies ‘economically’ made the right decision about forcefully migrating Africans and labeling them cheap slave labor. The Africans were the ultimate commodity to import as they had high selling prices and could do hard labor for only the bare necessities. Again it goes back to the slave traders
This article is interesting in that from their viewpoint slavery is justified by some principles of mercantilism, although with arguments made by the opposition of slave labor which outlined that using slave labor was a money making scheme that didn’t directly benefit England, it still powered on. With information the colonists had on the African people it seems that the colonies ‘economically’ made the right decision about forcefully migrating Africans and labeling them cheap slave labor. The Africans were the ultimate commodity to import as they had high selling prices and could do hard labor for only the bare necessities. Again it goes back to the slave traders