Creating+the+Atlantic+Economy

====The new Atlantic trading system resulted in the West Indian plantation colonies being primitive in their brutal system of slavery and strangely contemporary in their specialization in one commodity for export. The rise of this new system is shown by the transformations in the type and quantity of vessels navigating across the Atlantic.==== ====The Atlantic quests of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are represented by the two different types of merchant ships. The first was the sugar ship, it carried barrels upon barrels of brown sugar from the West Indies or Brazil to Europe for final purification. The slave ship was the second kind of vessel. Some 300 vessels, stuffed with around 250 African slaves each, voyaged across the Atlantic to the Americas annually at the trade‘s pinnacle between 1760 and 1800.==== ====Countless parts contributed to the development of the new Atlantic economy. Other than the plantation network itself, three different components deserve greater analysis: new economic institutions, new links between private investors and governments in Europe, and new working bonds between European and African merchants. The new trading system is a perfect example of how European capitalist connections were adjusting the globe.====



Capitalism and Mercantalism The Atlantic Circuit
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Taylor Armstrong