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Chapter 7 in Atlantic World explains the transformation in Africa during the Slave Trade within cultural changes. The reason the Americas and Atlantic Africa had strong connections regarding to trading because slave trading brought changes to African societies such as creating their own communities, growing their own food crops, growing populations, and increase amounts of free people help developed their own identity in Atlantic history. Men grew American plantations as planters in the Atlantic trade, while women produced equal or greater amounts of productivity in agricultural pursuits within the Atlantic. (Chapter 7, Page 240-242). Women’s role increased because they created their own societies, create governments, and build agricultural within the Americas. I think gender interaction shaped the Atlantic because it effected production like tea, sugar, and coffee which shaped the Atlantic’s economic history. Chapter 8 explains cultural transformation within gender interaction in the Western Atlantic because of new social relations and new mixed-race populations although created power within European men claiming rights and African women as material riches of enslaved society. One of the best examples was cross-cultural unions because European traders in African can form alliances with prominent families through marriage or other forms of unions. (Chapter 8, Page 264). One of the best examples of mixed-race families were the metis (mixed) daughters because their served as liaisons at Hudson Bay and were married to English company clerks which resulted inter-mix marriages and communities to create governments in the Atlantic. (Chapter 8, Page 266). Cultural changes became important because gender interaction created migration within a region, created work regimes, imperial governments to regulate people’s behavior in the Americas and the Atlantic, and these innovations changed the Atlantic World.
These chapters remind me of what Shelby Moore wrote explaining women’s roles in Michael Gomez’s article because women were in high regard in society and highly depending within Sierra Leone. (Gomez, Page 97). Many Native groups and Europeans continued their traditions which led to cultural change within their societies in the future. They are some societies who preferred to stay within their cultures and many of these groups like the cultural changes that are occurring in the Atlantic.