Slavery In The Caribbean Colonies

In the Caribbean Colonies, Latin America Mainland, and the British North America Colonies; slavery was incredibly different. For instance the treatment in the Caribbean Colonies were drastically different from British North American Colonies. Also, the way the slaves resisted was similar but still different. Some of the colonies passed laws regarding the slaves whiles others didn’t. The conditions were also drastically different in many ways. A large number of slaves were sent to the colonies in the Caribbean. This, was because back then a big cash crop was being produced there, which was sugar. Four million slaves were sent to the colonies in the Caribbean. The out-numbered colonists treated the slaves horribly. The slaves would have to work for long periods of time, and rested profoundly little. Their overseers often used force and or violence to get the slaves to do what they wanted them to do. Laws were passed, that said owners had the right to whip, hang, burn their slaves. As a result, the slaves began opposing by escaping captivity and building little towns of their own. One famous account of this rebellion, was of that of the slaves in Haiti rising up and eventually led to the end of slavery in Haiti …show more content…
They were snatched away from the people that loved them and used like cattle to carry out work that others thought to be animal work. They were treated like animals and they had no rights. The ones that did escape had lot of courage and the ones that didn’t lived in hell every single day. Some even thought that killing themselves would be better than dealing with being in slavery. Now today in this age African Americans can’t even trace their history back far enough to even see what part of Africa their ancestors came from, and this was because the colonists tried to destroy as many records as they could so, that African Americans would always be in the dark to where their family came