ANT 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: United Fruit Company, Paul Bogle, Jim Crow Laws
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What colonies where, and what they became, still needs to be pondered, for the cultural overlay created by colonialism has had a long, disguised, and still often unconsidered afterlife (cooper 2005). (p6) Following a century after 1492, carribean remained spanish. Cuba, jamaica, hispaniola, puerto rico were entirely spanish until 1650s. Caribbean islands were most profitable possessions of european = agricultural factories. Based on slavery, sugar, and plantation: fertile soil, ample water/wood, benign climate, natural resources. Forced african slaves developed distinctive individuality: kinship, locality, social/cultural contexts. Raw material for the creation of racial social norms. Capital investment (33) cheaper to set slaves that were ill/old/idle than to keep them. Trafficking in slaves abolished by the abolition of the slave trade act (1807) Slavery abolition act (1833) nominally freed about 700,000 slaves in british caribbean. After 5 years of forced apprenticeship slaves throughout the british empire finally became free.
