ACS 400 Lecture 3: lecture3
16 Nov 2016
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Exclusion what what was going on in the colonies. Successful slave revolution (people came to work on the sugar plantations) Slave captains ! forced people to involve themselves in cannibalism. Literary and experiences of slaves from africa to america. Prevented from eating sugar they were producing (would wear metal masks) Accounts that we have talked about, the slaves living short lives (15yrs avg) Slaves were property( if you owned something you can dispose of it how you wish) Account of a european in saint domingue in the early 1780"s. Food shortages, illness, and attempted escape from plantations. Logic of profit maximization linked to brutal exploitation. Slave owners act as little tyrants on estates. He depicts the slaves he saw as overworked, underfed, and cruelly punished . Explains the slaves day to day routines, 8 they have breakfast, then have lunch, then work from 2pm till 11pm.
