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vesna_86 [32]
3 years ago
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“The castle at Elmina* has justly become famous for its beauty and strength and has no equal on the Gulf of Guinea. The castle’s

garrison typically consists of one hundred Europeans and perhaps as many black African soldiers, all of whom are in the Dutch West India Company’s pay.
This castle was brought to its perfect state under the Dutch West India Company after they captured it from the Portuguese in 1637, and they found in it thirty good pieces of brass cannon, large amounts of gunpowder, and a great deal of other ammunition. It was not nearly as strong nor as beautiful when the Portuguese controlled it. Now it looks as if it had been made for a king than for a trading-post in Africa. This proves that the Dutch are the most curious and the most fit to make settlements abroad of all European nations, because they spare neither time, nor money, nor labor in their undertakings.

The Dutch attempted to use their control over the castle to monopolize trade along the West African coast. I was told that the Dutch used to export much gold and roughly eight thousand slaves, most of whom were sent to the Dutch island of Curacao in the Caribbean, from where the Spaniards purchase the slaves. The Dutch also export from West Africa vast quantities of wax, pepper, red wood, cloths, and other goods.”

*Located in the modern African nation of Ghana.

Jean Barbot, French Protestant and agent of the chartered Senegal Company (Compagnie du Sénégal), book describing his travels in West Africa, written circa 1682

a) Describe the broader historical situation in Africa at the time that Jean Barbot wrote his book.

b) Explain ONE way in which the passage illustrates the continuing development of the Atlantic in the seventeenth century.

c) Explain ONE way in which Barbot’s background might have influenced his comments about the Dutch and the Portuguese in the second paragraph.
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nadya68 [22]3 years ago
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Answer:

The broader historical situation in Africa at the time that Jean Barbot wrote his book was that dutch was making profit by exporting slaves in Spaniards and goods such as wax, pepper , red wood, and cloths, etc at that time. According to the text,"roughly eight thousand slaves, most of whom were sent to the Dutch island of Curacao in the Caribbean, from where the Spaniards purchase the slaves. The Dutch also export from West Africa vast quantities of wax, pepper, red wood, cloths, and other goods.”ONE way in which the passage illustrates the continuing development of the Atlantic in the seventeenth century is that the dutch took the control over the Africa and and used prisoners and black Africans as slaves. They first became friends with the African people and then they took control over them. ONE way in which Barbot’s background might have influenced his comments about the Dutch and the Portuguese in the second paragraph. That paragraph talks about how the dutches were really curious about everything and gave africa a name by reconstructions those buildings nicely and then by using advanced technology such as gunpowder. According to the text," thirty good pieces of brass cannon, large amounts of gunpowder, and a great deal of other ammunition. It was not nearly as strong nor as beautiful when the Portuguese controlled it". It also talks about how Portuguese was nothing compared to the dutch at that time because they nearly controlled everything.

Explanation:

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