The Caribbean Slavery

Slavery has taken many forms throughout history and still exists in a few forms to the day. The Caribbean has had a painful history regarding the slavery of two cultures. The slavery of the region ultimately led to racism against africans and to the industrial revolution. Communities of the Caribbean have been haunted by their history of slavery and colonialism which fueled colonial European capitalism. The impact that the plantation system had on the region has left a lasting scar on underdeveloped societies riddled with governments that exploit their citizens.

How did American slavery compare and contrast with slavery in Latin America? Was slavery in these two places mainly similar? Were there differences worth noting? Were demographics a large part of the differences? Which place was the most oppressive? Which was more benign in slave conditions? Although, I feel slavery, in any form, is reprehensible, I would like to discuss major differences between these two places pertaining to the work performed, the treatment of slaves, and the rights afforded to each.

Around the middle of the 1700s, a gathering of Jamaican slaves started touching base in Halifax. This gathering was named "Maroons", which implied outlaw slaves taking to the forested areas. (Pachai, Beneath the Clouds 2) The Maroons earned their name in light of the fact that they were a gathering of African plummet slaves in Jamaica who opposed the framework in that nation. Numerous Maroons settled in Preston and Guysborough.

The phenomenon of new world slavery was a well-run business and the slaves were the product. Slavery was one of the few industries in history where assets exceeded liability and owner’s equity, which is an unusual occurrence considering the equation is normally that assets equal liability and owner’s equity. Throughout this essay, the rise of slavery and the slave trade will be explained and slavery will be illustrated as the product of a domino effect. Slavery was a process and it took many people and pieces to fall into place for it to become the most profitable industry in its day, progressing over a 400-year time span. The economic analysis in this paper will show that the ideology of slavery in the new world came after the economic incentive.

Slavery had an effect on the world as we know it today for many differnet reasons. African American slaves were considered the prime slave workers during the time of the atlantic world and this caused African slaves to live a very brutal and unequal life to this day.

The history of Africans in America is portrayed as an experience of untold suffering. The lucrative agricultural economy of the America against fading European immigrant workers necessitated African slavery. The main cash crops that were exported to Europe from America were rice, tobacco, and sugar.

Talking about southern expansionism would not be complete without the mention of the interstate slave trade. This is most applicable when we talk about one aspect of the slave trade that often gets overlooked, the Atlantic Slave Trade. When mentioning the Atlantic Slave Trade, it is the fact that southerners considered reopening the trade after its dissolution in the beginning of the nineteenth century. Interestingly enough, there were movements by southerners to reopen the Atlantic Slave Trade that were in the name of southern expansion. One such individual was a man by the name of Leonidas Spratt, a young South Carolinian editor who bought the Charleston Southern Standard and turned it into a mouthpiece for promoting the issue of reopening the Atlantic Slave Trade (Deyle 78-79). One of the many arguments individuals like Spratt used was that reopening the trade would enhance the political power of the south by adding more population, thus adding more slave states. This is central to the idea of this essay, as the growth of cotton was not entirely responsible for instigating expansion. Likewise, Spratt also argued that reopening the trade “strengthen[ed] the southern economy by lowering the costs of production and increasing the profits” (Deyle 79). While not explicitly mentioning cotton, the same idea of expansion stands in its place. Individuals like Spratt were eventually unsuccessful in reopening the trade due to a minimal amount of support, but it goes to show how even

Have you ever been beaten? Starved? Whipped? Denied your French Citizenship? Denied your rights as a human? WE ALL HAVE! But all slaves are treated this horribly, right? WRONG! If you think this is true then you are one ignorant one. Slaves in America are not treated as inhumanely and horribly as we are. American slaves are being threatened to be sent here, from fear of a revolution spark.This reinforces the idea that slavery in Haiti is horrible as the thought of being sent here horrifies the American slaves. We are forced to work long days filled with exhaustion and torture, yet american slaves have a bit more recognition. They are considered “valued” and we are nothing more than trash, we can always be replaced. Every slave works up to

Religious institutions have played a prominent role in the history of American culture, and legislation. These institutions were especially impactful during the start of American colonization. Colonization caused the aggregated need for mass amounts of workers for cultivation infrastructure. For this reason, American settlers began the transatlantic slave trade trade. Christianity played an important role in advocating for the morality of the slave trade (Richard). In order to drive the slave industry, pastors across America used the traditions and stories found in the Bible to endorse and even encourage the practice of slavery. At this time, America was seeing ever dividing sects of protestantism. There were countless institutions

The institution of slavery was a big part of life in colonial Latin America. According Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 11.2 million slaves were imported to the Americas from Africa between 1502 and 1866. Most of the slaves were transported to the Caribbean and Latin America. In fact, Brazil got a total of about 4.8 million slaves (Black in LA). The working and living conditions for slaves were horrific. So many slaves were imported specifically because slaves were expendable. Slave holders could afford to undernourish their slaves due to the slave market. Slaves were in high demand in colonial Latin America. Some slaves resisted their enslavement by running away to form quilombos, or maroon communities.

Summary: The website shows a timeline of Slavery in America. The first ship that captured Africans was called the White Lion and it was a Dutch ship. Before there were slaves in America there were indentured servants. An indentured servant was a laborer who had a contract with their master for a period of time. Once they finished their time as a servant they received a piece of land. There was a very gradual change in the status to African Americans from indentured servants to chattel slaves. In 1640 a Virginia court sentenced the first black indentured servant to slavery. Although slavery was alive and well in the South the North started Emancipation.

Europeans expansion of their empires lacked one major resource, strong, hardworking people. Most times the native people had proved to be an unreliable source of work. Most of the natives were dying from diseases, and Europeans were unfit to the climate and suffered from tropical diseases. Africans were excellent workers. They had experience of agriculture and keeping cattle. They were used to a tropical climate and hot climates. They were also failure with tropical diseases, and they could work very hard on plantations and in mines.

British slave trading begun in the late sixteenth century and grew remarkably during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a woman in society, she faced challenges herself; however, she addressed the humanity of slaves as human beings and not by the color of their skin. She believed that “non whites” were equal to “whites” and deserved the same human rights. She wrote her famous piece, “Slavery, a Poem” during the abolitionist movement to persuade others to partake in the anti-slavery campaign. Hannah More condemns British slavery in “Slavery, a Poem” by advocating for women, religion, and depicting the inhumane treatment of Africans in order to promote human rights.

The beginning of slavery in the Caribbean can be traced back to the emergence of piracy in the 16th and 17th centuries. This eventually led to the promotion of slave trading and sugar plantations. While enslaved on the sugar plantations, slaves were treated very poorly. Plantation owners treated their slaves so poorly that most were undernourished and diseased. Slaves were even forced to work on their "spare" time to provide for their own needs. Needless to say, slaves encountered cruel punishment that we can’t even comprehend. The slaves however, continually resisted white supremacy causing much tension between the two social classes. Despite this, a new social class was emerging, the free coloureds. This

The significance of the role played by slaves in the history of the Caribbean cannot be overemphasized. Nearly everything that defines the Caribbean today can be traced back to the advent of Africans to the sugar plantations several centuries ago. For this reason it is impossible to ignore the issue of slavery when studying the history of the Caribbean, as we are doing in this class. Through our numerous readings on the status of slaves and their treatment by the societies in which they lived, we have learned much about the sufferings and ordeals of these people. The following is an attempt to organize my own particular feelings and reactions, which I have previously posted on-line throughout the