CRB 100 Chapter 3: Chapter 3→Caribbean Slavery

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Caribbean Studies
• Course: CRB 100
• Professor: Camille Hernandez- Ramdwar

Document Summary

Indigenous slavery 1492 1700s: main systems of labor were slavery & indentureship, european indentureship 1580 1775, african slavery 1650s 1886, portuguese/asian (chinese, indian) indentureship 1838 1917. What are the differences between slavery & indentureship: slavery system of labour in which the laborer is a commodity; an object that can be owned, bought, sold, or treated in any manner whatsoever, & whose labour is uncompensated. Enslaved africans: life on the sugar plantation: not finished. Creolization: process of cultural & racial mixing & blending to create something new (people, language, food, music, dance, the term creole means different things in different places generally means locally born religion, custom, creole whites. West indian slave societies were complex organisms in which all classes, free & slave, black & white, were. Symbolically interrelated" by interdependence & emulation & be a perverse admixture of fear, sex, grudging respect & occasional affection" .