Sugar Plantations
This crop drove massive demand for enslaved labor in the Atlantic system
What is sugar?
Falconbridge describes people chained together with this
What are shackles?
Independent communities formed by people who escaped slavery and did not intend to return
What are maroons?
TRUE OR FALSE:
Abolition always created equal citizenship immediately
What is FALSE?
Brazil’s post-abolition “whitening” ideology/policy
What is branqueamento?
Sugar was difficult to cultivate due to... list 4 reasons
- They thrive in hot and humid environments
- Fields were very large (~1,000 acres)
- Boiling process super intense
- Spoils easily
(Many correct answers)
Falconbridge highlights these below-deck conditions that helped spread disease
What is cramped, thick air, unsanitary?
Maroons often built communities in this kind of place to make capture harder
What is defensible terrain?
Abolition does not equal _________
What is EQUALITY?
By mid 1800's, Europeans developed _______ which linked _________ to _________
What is "SCIENTIFIC RACISM"?
Linked PHENOTYPES to PERSONALITY TRAITS
In "The Africanization of the Cane Fields," Elizabeth Abbott compares sugar plantations to these because of tight scheduling and coordinated labor
What are FACTORIES?
TRUE OR FALSE:
Conditions on ships improved because slave traders began to feel bad
What is FALSE?
Conditions only improved due to wanting to increase profit, not for humanity reasons
Name the five criteria needed for Maroon communities to survive.
Which do you think is most important & why?
1. Live in areas that are inaccessible to regular troops (swamps, jungles, etc.)
2. Be ready to defend with limited entrances & disguises
3. Sufficiently numerous to sustain themselves
4. Have a place to grow food (hunting is not enough)
5. Access to other communities for treaties, trading, raiding, etc.
**In what ways did abolition become a new form of coersion & inequality?
Any correct answer
These are ways that show how “freedom” was contested after abolition in practice
What is colonial law and power shaped what freedom meant in real life?
Name the labor system on plantations described as groups doing different tasks in sequence
What is gang labor?
**Give two specific details from any class readings and explain how the slave trade was a system of terror
What is two concrete details + explanation of coercion and trauma?
(Any accurate explanation)
Explain one way the “factory” model shaped enslaved people’s life chances in a 'positive' way
It shaped resistance options by encouraging collective strategies like slowdowns, sabotage, and escapes to maroon communities when survival on the plantation became impossible
(Any accurate explanation.)
Why did Haiti reshape abolition politics in other places?
- Fear factor: Haiti proved enslaved people could overthrow a major slave colony, making slavery look unstable and dangerous to maintain
- Policy reaction: other slave societies tightened surveillance, restricted Black freedom, and tried to prevent revolt (harsher policing, limits on assembly, censorship)
- Weaponization: pro slavery societies used Haiti as a “warning” against emancipation; abolitionists could use it as evidence that slavery produced violence and instability
*Compare Brazil and Cuba and share one key similarity in how inequality persisted
What is both used national projects to manage or minimize Black equality claims?
The “factory” model shaped enslaved people’s life chances negatively by...
What is it intensified discipline and violence by enforcing tight schedules and output targets
It could raise mortality because cane cutting and boiling were dangerous and exhausting
(Any accurate explanation)
*Connect the Middle Passage to one later form of resistance (maroons, Haiti, everyday survival) and explain the link
What is an accurate link from shipboard violence/instability to later resistance strategies?
(Any accurate explanation)
*When did the Haitian Revolution occur? What is it?
Analysis: How is it remembered/misrepresented?
What is 1791-1804?
Massive uprising in of enslaved people in the French colony of Saint Domingue
*During the 1800s, this country’s abolition debate is framed as moral and economic/political/strategic.
Give examples
What is BRITAIN?
*According to Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, what specific ideology was supposed to put an end to racism?
Why was this flawed?
What is SOCIALISM?