Slavery in Belize
This industry heavily relied on enslaved Africans in Belize.
What is the timber industry?
The route enslaved Africans endured while being transported to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This 1833 act by British Parliament began the end of slavery.
What is the Emancipation Act?
The term for enslaved people escaping to freedom in places like Guatemala.
What is marronage?
This term describes a system where people are considered personal property.
What is chattel slavery?
Enslaved Africans in Belize primarily originated from these regions.
What are the Bight of Benin, Congo, and Angola?
The three regions connected by the triangular trade.
What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
A system introduced after abolition requiring former slaves to work for their old masters for wages.
What is the Apprenticeship System?
Enslaved individuals resisted slavery by escaping, sabotage, and this violent action.
What are rebellions?
The legal ending of slavery is known as this.
What is abolition?
Unlike plantation slavery, slavery in Belize was primarily focused on this labor.
What is logging?
This trade lasted from the 1500s to this century.
What is the 1800s?
The transition to this type of labor occurred due to shortages after emancipation.
What is indentured servitude?
This uprising highlighted enslaved peoples' relentless pursuit of freedom.
What is a slave rebellion?
The process of granting freedom to enslaved individuals.
What is emancipation?
This group of indigenous people in Belize was protected from slavery by a 1775 proclamation.
Who are the Mosquito Coast Indians?
Conditions aboard the Middle Passage ships were often described using these three words.
What are cramped, unsanitary, and brutal?
This movement sought to legally end slavery in the British Empire.
What is the abolition movement?
Acts of sabotage by enslaved people targeted these elements of plantation life.
What are tools, crops, or machinery?
This group introduced African slaves to Belize in the 1720s.
Who are the Baymen or British?
The year slavery became firmly established in Belize.
What is 1800?
This country invited enslaved people to escape from Belize during slavery.
What is Guatemala or New Spain (Mexico)?
This process allowed enslaved individuals to be freed, often through their master’s will.
What is manumission?
The harsh punishment often used to deter rebellion among enslaved people.
What is branding or torture?
A labor system where individuals worked for a set time in exchange for passage or resources.
What is indentured servitude?