Slavery in Latin America

The jobs of gathering and growing plants were doled out to the women.  They also

They were willing to work for lower wages and the cultural differences between them let to problems with the white people.

The majority of the slaves were employed in agricultural areas in the South. By the mid-19th century, a large number of slaves worked in urban areas as well, and about 5% worked in more industrial occupations. The hours of the slave workers were long. The average life expectancy of African slaves was at least 12% lower than whit Americans in 1850 and the infant mortality rate was 25% higher for slaves. Oftentimes slave marriages and families dissolved due to separation. This concept is horrible when you take under consideration that family was the entire basis of African culture.

African Americans took the opputinies and started working jobs such as: cooks, brakemen and maintaning the tracks. They avoided jobs in the field of agriculture due to the horrors they had once endured during the slavery era. These oppurtines gave the African American communtiy a new life and the choice of working jobs that they have been intersted in pursing.

same category was referred to as weak and poor whites were able to be servants during

that treatment, and the conditions that lead to resistance by the slaves working in their various

Slave like conditions - Many victims are forced to live in deplorable conditions; becoming malnourished from lack of proper nutrients/unhealthy diet.

they were on the real slave boat it would never have happened. Other reasons are their weren't

The slaves made up one third of the population, most of them lived in small farms provided by their slaveholder. Slaves weren’t allowed to do many things, meaning they weren’t allowed to learn how to read and write so most of them were basically illiterate. They were also not allowed to make their own decisions. The slaveholders had all power over them, which made the slaves really dependent over them. If a slave was to act out on them, the slave would be severely punished and tortured by the slaveholder. If a slave was to get married and have children (if allowed), the slave owners would not care to divide the slaves and have them sold. Which also gave the slave owners money after selling the

The three ads about the slave runaway are seen most of them happing in the 18 and 19th in the Antebellum south and most of the ads are discussed in my paper basically coming from North Carolina. The slave runaway was considered a big issue back in that time especially for the slave owners who are relied on them to make their income and enhance their life economy. As seen on three ads and in reading different sources are pertained to slaves found that The North Carolina are relied on the slavery in terms of economy and social life style due to needing the workforce to support the cotton grown on that time (Johnson, page 2).

In 1839 history was about to be make and chance, a group of 53 Africans kidnapped or sold, lately find themselves on the Amistad arrived at Blanco’s slave. These 54 Africans was kidnapped from their home, they were kidnapped from their family and there was kidnapped from their country. Some of these African was captured because of a debt they own and this was their punished. Now since they were put on the ship, they were stripped naked, they were stripped of the little freedom they had, but most they were stripped from their name. While they were naked, they inspected from head to toe. They had to make sure they spend their money on good items.

England and different parts of the world. There was also slavery as well. Slavery at the time was

In Latin America, beginning around 1500, the trade of African slaves throughout various regions was in its infancy. As this region started to develop as a result of the booming slave trade, it began exporting raw goods and importing finished products from Europe. Enslaving the indigenous people was not as effective as using Africans. Native populations, like the Taino and Aztecs, were devastated by the Europeans and vanished as a result of slavery and fatal diseases brought the Spanish and Portuguese. Valuable mineral goods such as gold and silver ore, were mined by Spanish conquistadors from areas such as Potosi, and exported from Latin America to Spain. The most valuable import good of European merchants to the region were slaves from Africa

a continuous supply of cheap labor. This led to the use of white servants and black

The conquest of Latin America was a fairly quick process in which the theme of hegemony was vastly prominent. The cultures of colonialism and competitive nature to obtain wealth through exploitation were the main driving force of hegemony. It is natural to exploit the people of lower class or societal rank for one's own advantage, and that is what happened. As the pressure of power and control became overbearing toward the people, resistance was sure to follow.