Labor and Race
This revolution legally abolished slavery, but revolutionary authorities tried to keep freed people working on plantations through threat of violence and established the Corvée system.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This group of people were largely based in Tortuga, lacked letters of marque, and were named after a type of meat preparation.
Who are Buccaneers?
These British Laws in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century sought to improve the living conditions of enslaved people and place limits on control that masters had over enslaved populations.
What are Amelioration Laws?
This type of labor relied on a contract for a set number of years. The owner of the contract was required to provide housing. It was the primary form of labor in Barbados prior to slavery.
What is Indentured Servitude?
This group was racialized in the mid/late eighteenth century as "Black Caribs" to justify their enslavement.
Who are the Kalinago?
This is largely found in port cities and is facilitated by the high mobility in the Caribbean. Planters sought to limit this after the Haitian Revolution by not allowing enslaved people from Haiti to enter their colony. Their attempts were unsuccessful and it shaped future rebellions.
What are rumors?
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What is the spread of information?
This contract provided non-Spanish merchants the privilege to sell enslaved people within the Spanish Empire and often offered a cover for contraband.
What is the Asiento?
The invasion of Jamaica was part of this imperial plan to establish English dominance in the Caribbean.
What is Cromwell's Western Design?
Who is Mary Prince?
The exploitation of this commodity utilized both Indigenous and Africa labor at the same time in Margarita and Cubagua.
What are pearls?
This is the ability to perform whiteness based on economic status, marriage, connections to to important white people, legal status, or dress that allows non-white people to be perceived or treated as white.
What is Blanqueamiento?
Smuggling and the slave trade fueled this through the development of illicit networks and an increase in activity and interaction in port sites of people with differing backgrounds.
What is Creolization?
What strategies and rhetoric did abolitionists use to argue against slavery after the end of the transatlantic slave trade? (3)
What are religion/spiritual equality, threat of more revolts, and horrendous material conditions?
This is the only pirate to ever capture a Spanish Silver fleet.
Who is Piet Hein?
This form of labor is defined as the forced removal of victims from one place to another, coerced work by violence or threat of, nominal or no pay. It is characterized by the lack of a formal legal institution to support it.
What is Indigenous Slavery?
The British invasion and withdraw of Cuba after the Seven Years War facilitated these administrative changes in the Spanish Empire that included opening trade restrictions.
What are the Bourbon reforms?
This island had the latest enslaved rebellion in 1843 and had multiple independence movements from the 1860s-1898.
What is Cuba?
This island is the northern most part of the Caribbean. We rarely touched on it in class, but it was a contraband hub and is considered part of North American history and an important early English colony along with Jamestown.
What is Bermuda?