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Slavery in the Caribbean
[edit]History
[edit]The Caribbean was the first region in the Americas to receive African Slave by the Atlantic Slave Trade.[1] Slavery was dominated in the Caribbean mainly by European; the British, French, and the Spanish, also by other nations that had a significantly smaller role the Caribbean slave trade.
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Forms of Resistance in the Caribbean
[edit]Slaves naturally resisted their enslavement because slavery was fundamentally unnatural. Slave resistance shaped the initial form of plantation slave society and its evolution, determined the efficiency of slavery as an economic system.[2] Forms of slave resistance in the Caribbean varied across time and place, according to circumstances and opportunities,and was a constant feature of slavery.[3]
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Resistance can be found in many forms; from activities and behavior, shading from covert sabotage, through manifestation of internal rejection and anomie, to forms of dissimulated acceptance and accommodation.[4] Stanley Engermansuggested to make tripartite distinction to analysis types of slave resistance between; firstly, attempts to rebel against, destroy and replace the slave plantation system; secondly, to reject the plantation-slavery systems without necessarily destroying them; and thirdly, recognizing the impossibility of counter-productivity of either of the foregoing, to attempt to sabotage, change, and perhaps eventually destroy, the system within.[5]
The Haitian revolution in 1791-1804 destroyed slavery in the riches Caribbean colonies, forcing the french to abolish slavery throughout its colonial empire. In 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte overturned emancipation seeking to re-enslave the people in the French colonies.[6] The Haitian revolution had a direct influence in several colonies mainly in non-francophone colonies, providing long-lasting inspiration to slaves, raising slave owners fears to the level of paranoia.
Three- quarters of a million British slaves were emancipated on 1 August 1834. Slave owners were compensated with euro $20 million and the ex-slaves were constrained to work for their former masters during a transitional 'apprenticeship period'.[7] Slaves were granted full freedom on the 1 August 1838 for the British. The Atlantic slave trade to the Caribbean was gradually faded out in the 1850s, and slavery itself was successfully abolished in the French and Danish colonies in 1848, the Danish colonies in 1863, Puerto Rico in 1873, and finally in Cuba in 1886.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Schmidt - Nowara, Christopher (2011). "Caribbean Emancipation". Social History. 36 (3): 257-259. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Craton, Micheal (2009). Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Cronwell University Press. p. 223.
- ^ Carton, Micheal (2009). Testing the chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Cornwell University Press. p. 223.
- ^ Craton, Micheal (2009). Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Cronwell University Press. p. 223.
- ^ Craton, Micheal (2009). Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Cronwell University Press. p. 223.
- ^ Schmidt- Nowara, Christopher (August 2011). "Caribbean Emancipation". Social History. 36 (3): 257. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Carton, Micheal (2009). Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Cornwell University Press. p. 251.
- ^ Carton, Micheal (2009). Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Cornwell University Press. p. 251.