Chapter 14 (second half)

Daniel Guerrero

Professor Patricia Andrews, MA

01/19/19

Chapter 14 (second half)

Europe's population grew at the sane time as a cooling period whish is now known as the 

"Little Ice Age." During this time there was more demand for furs to keep warm. This made the 

northern Europeans to begin exploration in territories in North America. Obviously this there was 

competition for warm clothing within European states. Some trade with Native Americans, trading 

European goods, such as firearms and liquor for furs an skins. This competition was just any regular 

competition, it was intense and the type intensity involved led to near extinction of several species of 

animals. Native Americans did most of the labor and fur trade, but were not forced into it. The fur 

trade many consequences for the Native American societies. Some tribes did benefit from the fur 

trade,  wealth and political power. Contact with the Europeans led to the epidemic diseases. Then 

later came into play, better known as "The Atlantic Slave Trade." "Between 1500 and 1866, this 

trade in human beings took and estimated 12.5 million people from African societies, shipped them 

across  the Atlantic in the infamous Middle Passage, and deposited some 10.7 million of them in the 

Americas, where they lived out their often-brief lives as slaves." (Strayer, 620) In Europe, profit 

increased and stereotypes developed. This was not the first view of slavery, it goes back even before 

the 1500s. The males did all the hard labor in plantation agriculture. Slaves had no status and no 

rights at all. Slaves were racially known as Africans. The Europeans did not go inside of Africa 

because there was some states that had a strong military, so they waited on the coast. Waited for the 

African slave traders to bring them human cargo from Africa. Without the slave trade merchants, the 

Atlantic Slave Trade would not be possible. After the 17th century, about 10,000 slaves were sold 

per year.