Atlantic System

-18th century trade of many different commodities which mainly focused on slaves, sugar, rum among the countries of England, America, Africa, and West Indies. Trade brought much wealth to ship owners and profits eventually became one of the foundations of American capitalism -John Lock wrote about slavery in his Two Treatises (highly against slavery) -thousands of dead slaves were dumped into the Charleston harbors in order to not pay for burials. People began to not eat fish that came from the river because they were eating the corpses -Slaves wanted to be Baptized, but the though of enslaving Christians hindered idea.