The Impact of Slavery (Grade 10 NSC Matric History): Flashcards

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The Impact of Slavery
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Monarchs' motive for colonial expansion

Expand territories and increase wealth

Navigation tools for colonial expansion

Quadrant and astrolabe

Catholic Church's role in colonial expansion

Provided moral justification for converting heathens

How trading companies raised capital

From stock exchanges

Three cities that grew wealthy from slave trade

Amsterdam, Bristol, and Liverpool

Banks' role in slave economy

Lent money to new overseas trading businesses

New social class from slave trade profits

Middle class of entrepreneurs

Luxury goods produced by slave labour

Sugar, cotton, tobacco, and tea

European belief used to justify slavery

They were more educated and civilised than indigenous peoples

Why European science/technology advanced rapidly

For weapons and production methods to maintain slavery

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