The Exploitation of Labour

The structure is geographic, set in areas which experienced intense other slavery: Caribbean, Mexico, and the American Southwest. It focuses on moments in history with abundant evidence of slavery or when the traffic of slavery underwent a significant change. The four traits used to determine native slavery are forcible removal and relocation, inability to leave the workplace, working under threat, and little to no pay. That is why the title is important, “other” references the issue of African slavery and different forms of

•    Analyze the changes in the forced labor systems in the Americas from 1450 to 1914 CE.

Slavery represents an important part of Jamaican history and the cultivated dominant atmosphere. For one, plantations highly depended on slave labor to maximize profit margins. Between 1655 and 1808 one million slaves were forcefully brought to Jamaica (Waters, 1985: 21-23). Persaud (2001: 72) suggests, “the plantation system, the totality of institutional arrangements surrounding the production and marketing of plantation crops, has seriously affected society in Jamaica”. In other words, the slave mode of production was a crucial factor in the establishment of Jamaica’s structural society. “Jamaica’s class structure today reflects its history as a colonial plantation society and its beginnings of industrial development

Slavery in Africa was very similar to the peasants in Europe, which was a hard, laborious life (yet still having the ability marry, own property, etc.), however very different from the American slavery where all rights were denied and slavery was lifelong.

Most of the time, the slaves were exploited for the accumulation of the wealth of the whites. The Africans could escape slavery, but not their race and if ever caught they would be punished harshly.

Slavery in America was a horrific time period that negatively affected African Americans, and still affect some to this day. Africans were kidnapped from their homes, brought overseas in an inhuman effort, tortured, beaten, and forced to work long grueling hours for no pay. Because of the color of their skin they were considered worthless, and they were also considered as property. Whites did not recognize African Americans as human beings, and

The Africans, on the other hand, were also forced from their homes and into slave labor. The English captured Africans bringing them to the New World on the Middle Passage. The Africans were brought to the New World as a form free labor to help build the colonies. The English did use the Indians for labor, but found it hard to work with them and they were susceptible to illness and were not as strong as the Africans. The Africans suffered through sickness and lack of understanding secondary to the language barriers with the English. They also had problems

So it was the plentiful supply of enslaved African labour provided by the salve trade that allowed for the development of the plantation economy. Of this process of the plantation economies turning to the slave trade for the supply of African labour Eric Williams writes in Capitalism and Slavery "Slavery in the Caribbean has been too narrowly identified with the Negro. A racial twist has thereby been given to what is basically an economic phenomenon."

Labor in the British colonies in America consisted of African slaves who were typically permanently enslaved as well as white indentured servants who worked for a specific amount of time and according to conditions outlined in a legal document, as well as several combinations of the two categories. Both the indentured servants and the slaves were essential to the growth of the colonial economy and society as a whole because of their work. The rapid growth of the farming economy led to a significant need for laborers which led to a chain of events resulting in slavery. By investigating the contractual rights indentured servants had, the living conditions they experienced, and the way indentured servants acted as a precursor for slave labor,

They were executed, whipped, and punished for many reasons. They were punished because they were being disrespectful, but also because the master wanted to show that they had dominance over them. Women slaves were raped by slave owners and sometimes they would have children of mixed race but they were just sent into slavery. They worked from the time the sun came up, until it went down. It was none stop work, if they worked to slow they were whipped.

"Capitalism & Slavery," (published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1994) was written by Eric Eustace Williams and first published in 1944. Eric Williams' book, was at the time of its publication, considered years ahead of its time. It should be noted, early on within this report that, literary works on the history of the Caribbean or slavery for a matter of fact, was done by Europeans. In the preface of his book, Williams clearly asserts that his work, "is not a study of the institution of slavery but of the contribution of slavery to the development of British capitalism."1 His work takes an economic view of history, which is at the

Another add on to the work of slaves was a labor system. “It also is our desire that the Indians live in community with the Christians, because they then will help each other cultivate and settle the island, take out the gold, and bring profit to Spain” (Document 7). The Spanish decided that because the Natives were lesser and not Christians they would work in mines and do all the work for the Spanish, this was called the Encomienda system. Another system outside the Encomienda system was the Mit’a system. “As soon as a man married, he became the head of a household and was obligated to perform mita work.

These were slave born on the African continent with little or no acculturation with the Spaniards

African slavery started at the 16th century and ended in the 19th century. Slave life was the most brutal and disrespected period of America. When Africans first stepped foot on the slave ships coming to America things were bad. The white man beat, raped, and treated the black men like animals. Life on the plantation wasn’t any better. The slaves didn’t work for a paycheck, they worked for their lives. The black man had difficulties adapting to the environment, learning another language, and being a monogamous.

work being done by the natives. The Africa slaves were used mostly in the sugar plantations and