Colonization & Plantations
The European power was initially dominant in the Caribbean before England took over
What is Spain?
The year sugar was introduced to the region, kicking off demand for enslaved labor
What is 1640?
The French word this group's name derives from, meaning "runaway black slave"
What is Maroon?
The years the Haitian Revolution spanned
What is 1791-1804?
Compared to the West Indies, this region of North American colonies had less profitable, mostly infertile soil
What is New England?
England established British West Indies colonies in these three islands
What is the St. Kitts, Barbados, and Jamaica?
The day of the week enslaved people were allowed to grow their own food
What is Sunday?
In Jamaica, Maroons were known by this name
What is Koromanti?
The formerly enslaved military leader who led Haiti to independence
What is Toussaint Louverture ?
The cash crops grown in the American South, similar in reliance on slave labor to the West Indies
What is tobacco, rice, and other cash crops?
This cash crop drove the shift to a plantation economy
What is sugar?
The name for plots of lower-quality land given to enslaved people for growing food
What is Provision grounds?
Name Maroons used for themselves meaning "Children of the Almighty
What is Nyankipong Pickibu
This French document's ideals helped inspire the Haitian Revolution
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ?
Unlike West Indies settlers, colonists here grew angry at British rule over unfair taxation
What is the (13) American colonies ?
Sugar plantations required large amounts of this, plus extensive land and labor
What is International trade networks / labor?
The 1661 law that classified Africans as "heathens" and "brutes" to justify their treatment
What is the slave code?
Three tactics Maroons used against plantations
What is Burning, raiding, and poisoning plantation owners
The year Britain outlawed the slave trade (following Haiti's success)
What is 1807?
This 1661 law was one of the harshest slave codes in the British Empire
What is The Barbados Slave Code?
What group's disruption after European arrival marked the end of independent Taino/Kalinago societies?
What is Indigenous Caribbean?
Percentage of enslaved people who died during the two-month voyage to the Americas
what is about 14 percent?
The years (range) when the most notable slave rebellions occurred
What is 1760–1776
The year the Slavery Abolition Act freed 800,000+ enslaved people in the British West Indies
What is 1833?
The demographic majority in West Indies colonies vs. American colonies
What is the demographic majority in West Indies colonies vs. American colonies?