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9.2 Africa did not turn to serfdom, as Europe did, but kept working with slaves. The biggest slave trade happened across the Sahara. When in the Caribbean the plantations exploded, a lot of slaves were sold to this region, followed by the US and Europe. After slavery was forbidden in England and then in the US, it did not disappear. Trade with Africa surged and slaves were used within Africa massively.

9.1 When the Portuguese first reached Southeast Asia via the cape of good hope they instantly tried to monopolize clove, mace and nutmeg trade (these regions were rich because of these spices). They failed. The Dutch then did this, killing locals and monopolizing trade. Locals destroyed their own crops (all of them) to keep the Dutch away. These regions had no chance to adopt the Industrial Revolution and remain bad