Rosenbaum Chapter 6

Chapter 6 gives a comparative analysis between the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust.  Some historians argue that because of the mass degradation, dispersion, and death there are parallels between them.  Therefore, Historians compare the victimization of the two peoples.  Drescher refers to the Atlantic Slave system.  This system was based on established slave systems in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.  Race was a major factor in the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust.  Both catastrophes were similar as far as human suffering, however, vastly different.

In what ways were they similar?


What made them so different?