CRB 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Acclimatization, Erving Goffman, Unfree Labour

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Caribbean Studies
• Course: CRB 100
• Professor: Karen Naidoo

Document Summary

Ccrb 100 module 3 indigenous slavery: first people to be enslaved in the caribbean were the indigenous people. Spanish colonizers imported the encomienda system, whereby the spanish crown granted a certain number of indigenous people to colonizers, from whom they could extract labour; in exchange the colonizers were to convert them to christianity. Failure to produce quotas of gold could result in mutilation or death by masters. Response by people included waging wars, fleeing to remote areas, or mass suicide. During colonialization continued, small settlements developed, based around the small farmers who exported for the european market. Labour for these farms came from three groups: indentured servants, redemptions, and convicts. Indentureship was a system of contract labour whereby those under contract were bound to complete a number of years of labour. Redemptions were given passed to the caribbean that they then had to pay off throu their labour; convicts were sent to serve their sentences in the colonies.