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Gang and Task system
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Gang System- a division of labor, it is the harsher one of the two. Used in the WEST INDIES AND CHESPEAKE. It was the most productive form of labor and was preferred on sugar plantations and it was very brutal and harsh. Slaves were divided into groups according to physical capabilities, and worked usually from early morning to late night and were supervised. They wanted maximum production out of this group and operated like an “assembly line”.
Task System- this division wasn’t as harsh. It was used in SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. If they were finished with there set of task for the day they could rest or work on their own garden or other projects. Significance-illustrates the distinctions among the different regions of the Americas, the labor conditions of the slaves as well as the relationship between the slaves and the whites. |
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Triangular Trade
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was the "Atlantic Trade System"
eng goods traded for African slaves, slaves sent to Americas via Middle Passages traded for American goods which were sent back to eng. simlar to fur trade, caused conflicts within africa btw groups. |
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Middle Passage
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The middle passage was the middle route of the triangular trade and it was from Africa to the Americas. This was the longest trip on the journey and many slaves died from cramped quarters, malnutrition, and diseases. Because of so many deaths on the middle passage, Europeans had to keep exporting more and more slaves to keep up with the demand.
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Slavery in West Indies
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extreme opposite of Northern slavery
had largest market for slaves because sugar was a large profit, but the plantations were very deadly harsh conditions, used gang system because they were outnumbered 3 to 1, the whites created legal and cultural restrictions |
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Stono Rebellioin
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one of the 1st crisis of Brit. America in S. Carolina
slaves rebell together trying to seek refuge in Florida, but caught and killed shocked slaveholders, lead to stricter laws confirmed anglo americans' fear ab dangers of slaveholding and inablity to prevent serious internal disorder |
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Rice and Indigo
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south carolina's primary crops
high demand for both these crops prompted the need for more slaves, and so more slave importation was high used task system, needed afr slaves b/c they had exper. very significant as they made the south agricultural colonies more dependent on slave labor and eventually entrenched slavery in southern culture and economies |
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Gustava Vassa
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aka Olaudah Equiano
wrote ab his exper. on middle passage one of the 1st captured in africa, but educated himself, bought his freedom, and became abolitionist in Eng. significantly helped the abolition movement and provided a unique perspective into the life of a slave. |
