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...... In general, Gilbert and Reynolds focus more specifically upon the slavery issue than the article by Amin and Gage. While the article is somewhat brief, however, it provides a valuable general perspective on the historical paradigms that led to the transatlantic slave trade. Amin and Gage (1) link the escalation of European interest in Africa after the 1500s to the rise of capitalism. They also not that there are two distinct periods in slave trading, as this manifested in exchanges between sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and tropical Asia (Amin and Gage 2). These two periods are the period preceding European mercantilism, or premercantilism, and mercantilism itself
While premercantilism was generally focused upon agriculture and trade, mercantilism marked the beginning of capitalism in terms of the decay of feudal relations on the one hand, and wealth in the form of money on the other (Amin and Gage 6). This, according to the authors, culminated in the Industrial Revolution and capitalism in its fully fledged form. While this accumulation of money was still centered in Europe, the peripheries to such accumulation were no less important. Indeed, according to Amin and Gage (7), the American periphery of the European

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