fur trade was a competitive enterprise
In the early modern era, furs joined silver, textiles, and spices as major items of global commerce.
Furs provided:
- warmth
- conveyed status
European population growth made fur run out of beavers, rabbits, sable, marten and deer which made them witness some cooling temperatures and harsh winters.
Slave trade: between 1500 and 1866 this trade in human beings took an estimated 12.5 million people from African societies, shipped them across Atlantic in the infamous middle passage and lived their often-tried-lives as slaves. slaves suffered forced labor, beatings, and braidings, broken families and displacements from home cultures
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