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West Indies Info Please?

1. By mid-seventeenth century who controlled the West Indies?

2. What was the economic base of the West Indies?

3. Where did the labor source come from?

4. How was the labor source controlled?

5. Explain the West Indies involvement in triangular trade?

If you cant answer all of them you can just answer a few. THANKS

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    1- britain abolish slavery in the carribean to stop the french spanish nd portugal from benefitting off them

    2- sugarcane,coffee,spices

    3- west africa, indigneous people, chinese coolie

    4-they had a pamplet to see how much pay per year day

    5- the european bring guns to the africans so they the african enslave more people and the european bring them to the carribean to work and the products goes to europe and europe benefits

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