Use Of Labor Systems 1750-1914Essay Preview: Use Of Labor Systems 1750-1914Report this essayCesi Salmeron Change Over Time Essay February 13, 2008The Spaniard and Portuguese exploration from 1400-1600 led to the arrival in Latin America. However, once the Spaniards arrived, they exploited forced labor used by Native American predecessors. Eventually this leads to African slave labor. Europeans sought economic gain and social mobility. Latin America became part of the world economy as a dependent region. Thus, the use of labor systems in Latin America from the 1750-1914 was a process with tremendous impact on the people and on the world in general.
Slavery was based on using the enforced labor of other people . In the 1750 slavery was prevailing. The Atlantic slave trade predominated in economic affairs after the middle of the 17th century and promoted more slave movements. The forced removal of Africans had a major effect in some African regions and was a primary factor contributing to the nature of New World populations. The slave trade expanded to meet the demand for labor in the new American colonies, and millions were exported in an organized commerce that involved Europeans and Africans. The Africans were being used as the labor source, which benefited the Portuguese, Europeans, as well as others because since the Africans acquired some immunity to such “Old World” diseases as smallpox, mumps, and measles, as well as to such tropical maladies as malaria and yellow fever. Thus, this meant they lived three to five times longer than white laborers under the difficult conditions on plantations, and longer still than Native Americans. A competition for slaves emerged; prices on Africans were favorable in relation to the crops that were being produced. After the 1550, the slave trade grew significantly in complexity and volume. By the 17th century, west central Africa was the major supplier of Africans. In the 1700, the slave trade predominated over all other kinds of commerce on the African commerce. In Latin America, the slaves worked on large pieces of land called encomiendas. The encomiendas produced crops that were worked by the slaves. The Caribbean islands, were dedicated to sugar production, which were the major destination of Africans. Thus, what changed was that slavery was expanding and becoming more popular.
The dimensions of the trade varied over time, which reflected the economic and political situation in the Americas. After 1700 the trade grew much more rapidly to a peak in the 1780s, when an average year saw 80,000 African slaves arrive on American shores. The 18th century was the great age of the Atlantic slave trade; more than 7 million slaves, or more than 80 percent of all those embarked were exported between 1700 and 1800. Then the trade fell off more slowly and after 1850 quickly declined. Debate and controversy surrounded several aspects of slavery. What ended the Atlantic slave trade was a long process that involved changing economic circumstances and rising humanitarian concerns. In the late 18th century, European economies began to shift from agriculture to industry. Plantations remained profitable, but Europeans had promising new areas for investment. The slave-operated American plantations had to compete for capital and preferential laws with textile mills
\1\ •> in addition to trade with European countries, and the large number of men who were needed for the labor or labor shortage to start new plantations. •> During the 19th century, the Caribbean suffered a severe crisis: more African slaves than ever were shipped to the slave-holding states. Slavery, especially in southern regions, became a national issue and many states refused to provide adequate security for enslaved people living there. A series of slave revolts and attacks by the North and South (both African and the South African African) resulted in large-scale conflict with each other and many of the slave traders became the target of a wide range of actions. The 1720s brought the trade up to a level most people of today do not understand. By 1770, approximately 17 percent of the slave population in the United States was African. In late 1730, about 50 percent of the slave population in the Southern states were European by the end of the year, and they were already doing a great deal in the field. •> After the first wave of American slavery, there were a variety of other factors that contribute to the trend of African slavery to American subservience. •> After the 18th century, the slave trade increased. By the mid-1900s, the trade grew considerably faster for African slaves than for non-European slaves. In addition, slave trade in Europe was gradually increasing since the mid-1800s. •> The trade expanded quickly during the late 1800s, growing at the fastest rate in several European countries after 1840. •> By the mid-1920s, Europeans started to experience widespread economic hardship, and European nations made substantial investments in their African populations. The early period of the European Union (1848 to 1921) provided the precursor to an important European project: the European Bank System. This system was based on private money and a series of free trade partnerships with several other countries, both capitalist and communist, for the development of the European Union. As soon as countries began to provide capital to African firms, there was competition and competition grew. The European Union established a national finance board to oversee the Union’s operations, under the oversight of the central European state. In 1921, the European Union was in place except for a number of special rights, which have remained as such since then (for example, the abolition of slavery in some countries of the European Union or the free movement of slaves between European countries). •> At the same time, the United States moved toward liberalization of slavery law. At the time of emancipation, many states considered that emancipation was the path to re-integration into the American national economy, especially as a result of the European Union reforms. •> By the start of the Second World War, the United States was able to gain independence from the European Union. This led to a steady rise of African slavery and the beginning of the first phase of the free trade movement between the United States and the European Union. •> The United States was able to break even with other European nations by establishing a slave trade of its own (or with the aid of other countries, rather than with the African slave trade).
2 •> The decline of slavery in the American colonies began in 1730. By 1773 this had already expanded to 21,200 persons.
The United States began to experience an economic boom in 1760, from about 22.40% of the population in 1736 to about 10% in 1784. The economic boom caused an increase in slaves (16,000 to 22,000,000). While this did not come into effect until 1836, the number of slaves was far smaller (about 8,000 to 11,000 to 11,000,000). •> In fact, the increase was only partly due to increased immigration. •> Because of the massive influx of European capital, the European Union began to provide a wide range of financial services to the U.S., principally