HOW DO THE CARIBBEAN PEOPLE RESPOND TO OPPRESSION? 2. OPPRESSION Oppression is the experience of repeated‚ widespread‚ systemic injustice. It need not be extreme and involve the legal system (as in slavery‚ apartheid‚ or the lack of right to vote) nor violent (as in tyrannical societies). 3. What Really happened Between 1662 and 1807‚ Britain shipped 3.1 million Africans across the Atlantic ocean in the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were forcibly brought to British owned colonies in the Caribbean
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the slave trade and be put into slavery‚ but people were forced to‚ even by their own people. Life as a slave in the Southern English colonies was not good‚ whether one was a plantation slave or a city slave. Despite their treatment‚ the slaves were able to keep some of their culture and contribute positively to the development of America. How good a slave’s life depended on his master and what kind of slave he was. There were house slaves‚ skilled slaves‚ and field hands. House slaves worked
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THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF INDENTURESHIP ON THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN BETWEEN THE PERIOD OF 1838 AND 1921 According to readings in the Caribbean Studies‚ indentureship is a contract labor system in which the workers were waged to work in the Caribbean. These indentured workers had to sign a contract for their employer ensuring that they will work for them for a period of time usually 3-5 years. They were punished if the contract was breached and received three benefits at the end of their contract
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emergence of the plantation system in the Caribbean. Discuss with special reference to the sugar industry. According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary a plantation is a long‚ artificially-established forest‚ farm or estate‚ where crops are grown for sale‚ often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption. The term plantation is informal and not precisely defined. Plantations are grown on a large scale as the crops grown are for commercial purpose Crops grown on plantations include fast-growing
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incapable of becoming civilized. led several Central American slave insurrections before his death. was popular with Europeans for telling them that their culture was far superior to that of Africans like himself. was one of the few children of African-American and Native American descent ever to be the chief of his Indian tribe. E.wrote the eighteenth century s most widely read account by a slave of a slave s own experiences. Revivalist preachers during the Great Awakening
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the Caribbean. The incorporation of the Dutch into the Caribbean during the latter half of the 16th century and early 17th century came on the heels of them seeing the prosperous economic opportunities at the time dominated by the Spanish. In the Caribbean‚ the Dutch concentrated on wrestling from Portugal its grip on the sugar and slave trade through attacks on the Spanish treasure fleets on their homeward bound voyages. Though the prime and most active time for the Dutch in the Caribbean lasted
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never thought I would be kidnapped from my country and become a servant to the foreigners of the West. Well‚ let me tell you how my perfect and simple my life was before it taken away from me. It was a peaceful summer day‚ where I played with my children and enjoyed my wife’s company. It was a great moment and I can still remember how simple the life of a villager in Senegal was. I thought it could not get any better until a raid began upon my defenseless village. Soldiers came with weapons to strike
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implemented by the Europeans in the Caribbean. It was the act by which the Europeans brought Africans to the Caribbean on different ships to work on their plantations against their wills. It started in the 1600’s‚ many slaves committed suicide even before they could reach to the plantations; many of them also fell sick and died. However‚ after many efforts to overthrow the slavery system in 1830’s the enslaved populations on the plantations were eventually freed. All the slaves knew was how to do gardening
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Out on the plantation hot about 90 degrees it felt more like 100 degrees with balls of sweat dripping from Ilaria and Oma faces as they work side by side in the cotton field. Not daring to talk to each other nor the rest of the enslaved people as they worked in fear of Massa Whitley who was watching over them like a hawk on his horse. Gripping tightly on his rope like he was ready to take aim at any moment. Flashing back Oma was thinking how there were major differences between being back
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AFS 3250 3/06/2013 Origin of the Plantation System One of the world’s most important events of the seventeenth century was the introduction of the sugar cane to the Caribbean Islands. During the “sugar revolution‚” sugar was in high demand and required a greater supply of labor. The importation of African slaves through the transatlantic slave trade provided the labor necessary to keep up with the rigorous demands for sugar products. The transportation of slaves to the New World was a lucrative
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