American ship owners, farmers and anglers equally benefited from slavery. Slavery played a fundamental role in the escalation of moneymaking capitalism in the colonies (Harms p.1). The plantations from West Indies formed the largest market for American fish, oat, corn, flour, lumber peas, beans, and horses. New Englanders did not drag behind as they distilled molasses produced by slaves in the French and Dutch West Indies into rum. Most Africans were captured and sold to America to work as slaves. The trans-Saharan trade provided enslaved African labor work on sugar plantations in the Mediterranean (Pattison p.1). These slaves were very competent in their work, and this led to Brazil dominating in the production of sugarcane in 16th and 17th centuries. This led to the establishment of the earliest large-scale manufacturing industries to enhance conversion of sugarcane juice into sugar, molasses, rum as well as alcoholic beverages for the triangular trade.
Slavery led to the success of many economic activities in the United States. For instance, the cotton plantation was part of the regional economy of the American South. In 1830, cotton was the most produced crop in the United States. U.S was competing for economic …show more content…
On the other side, there are people who are living like “slaves” and suffering for this integrated progression. Adama claims, “I was crying, [but] she did not even look at me. I said, ‘Madam, why you do this to me?’ She told me that I’m a slave … I’m too slow, I’m not fast enough.” (Pattisson) This is an example of an abuse of domestic workers in Kuwaiti households, which extends the idea of employers can treat their workers however they wish in the sense of “paid”, “ bought”, and “owned.” Again, it violated the human rights of