The author demonstrates that some of the slaves are involved in the Indo-Atlantic trade not as commodities but as critical components of the functioning system. The chapter also gives us a different look at the VOC and EIC, as they are the crucial parts of the same trading network at similar time period. In different reading materials, we learn the way these companies function, and in this chapter, the author provides us with more first hand accounts of merchants conducting their individual business under the oversight of these great power. The context provides us with some different perspectives when we try to study the development of oceans and empires. The common conception of slaves in the medieval trading has always been that slaves are the commodities while the author suggests otherwise in this
The author demonstrates that some of the slaves are involved in the Indo-Atlantic trade not as commodities but as critical components of the functioning system. The chapter also gives us a different look at the VOC and EIC, as they are the crucial parts of the same trading network at similar time period. In different reading materials, we learn the way these companies function, and in this chapter, the author provides us with more first hand accounts of merchants conducting their individual business under the oversight of these great power. The context provides us with some different perspectives when we try to study the development of oceans and empires. The common conception of slaves in the medieval trading has always been that slaves are the commodities while the author suggests otherwise in this