HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indentured Servant, 6 Years, Black Body
22 Apr 2019
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Social context: think through ways in which enslavement in caribbean shaped social and labour context. 17th 1830s various forms of enslavement, various economies (sugar) Enslavement in canada looks similar to domestic scheme: 17th 19th century: enslavement, following emancipation (1833): apprenticeships and indentured labour. After 1833, declration of emancipation on paper (diff being free on paper vs. social practice), enslaved people required to apprentice for masters for 6 years. Obliged to work for 40 hours a week in exchange for food, clothing shelter but no wages. Considered free on text but no difference than slavery. Socially and economically tied to plantation and people they work for: role of plantation labour and importance of land. Using relationship with land and result power, not granting land and access to land= big social problem: gendered labour remains. Relationship to labour gendered, most black women doing domestic labour while men doing rigorous being tied to land and not inside home.
