ABSTRACT

As a reminder of the complex impact of change, other trends in the century-notably, economic development-furthered the expansion of the slave trade. Indeed, this was the century in which the Atlantic slave trade came to its height. The Portuguese bases in Angola supplied Minas Gerias and Rio de Janeiro with slaves, while West Africa supplied the sugar plantations of north-east Brazil that were also further north. Although the Brazilian plantations relied on African slave labor, and most slaves came from Angola, slave-raiding was still much practiced in Brazil. Export growth from Spanish America was also linked to the intensification of slavery, which encouraged the import of slaves. The contrast between white workers sent to the Americas as indentured laborers, and Africans moved there in floating prisons, as slaves, reflected more than racism. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts(SPG) was highly influential to the development of white attitudes in North America and the West Indies.