The Chains of Slavery
It is essential that Jamaican and Brazilian slavery is deeply understood from the point of the country’s colonization to the slave laws enforced having an impact on slaves’ attitudes for rebelling.
The Arawak’s Overthrow
In the mists of the Caribbean islands lies Jamaica, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1494. He encountered initial resistance from the Arawak natives, also known as Tainos. This tribe viewed the Spaniards as gods, when in reality they exploited their land for greed of natural resources and destroyed their race. Clinton Black revealed this brutality , “Settlers frequently murdered Indians in sport, to keep their hands in use, laying bets among themselves to see who could most expertly strike off …show more content…
Slaves were deemed as property, but were protected from death their masters tried to fulfill. If an excessive abuse became present, slaves could demand their master to sell them. Usually the Brotherhood of Saint Benedict would buy them and set them free. (Perdigão, 1944, p. 238) In addition, Habeas corpus is applied to slaves on trial that kill or wound their master in self-defence, meaning that a slave is not a thing, but a person. On the contrary, Jamaica gave no protection or voice to the security of their slaves. However, the abuse of female slaves was not protected by the law as it was legally acceptable that masters rape or molest slave …show more content…
Such as working endlessly in mines, digging caves with diamonds. Slaves would steal diamonds and use it to buy their freedom from their master. Others ran away and were posted in local newspapers such as the O Diario de Janeiro with a reward for their capture. Yet those that were not captured formed quilombos which were communities of fugitive slaves as they defended themselves against capitães do mato, bounty slave hunters. These quilombos would fight for the slaves they left behind while maroons were granted freedom with the condition to return escaped slaves. The most successful quilombo was he republic of Palmares that united in 1603 under Zumbi ruler of the African kingdom with the purpose to rescue other slaves and be the controller of their own destiny (Keen, Haynes, 2004, p. 129). Many fugitive slaves in Brazil also had the ability to run off to other nations while Jamaican slaves were geographically restricted by the island leaving a sense of
It is essential that Jamaican and Brazilian slavery is deeply understood from the point of the country’s colonization to the slave laws enforced having an impact on slaves’ attitudes for rebelling.
The Arawak’s Overthrow
In the mists of the Caribbean islands lies Jamaica, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1494. He encountered initial resistance from the Arawak natives, also known as Tainos. This tribe viewed the Spaniards as gods, when in reality they exploited their land for greed of natural resources and destroyed their race. Clinton Black revealed this brutality , “Settlers frequently murdered Indians in sport, to keep their hands in use, laying bets among themselves to see who could most expertly strike off …show more content…
Slaves were deemed as property, but were protected from death their masters tried to fulfill. If an excessive abuse became present, slaves could demand their master to sell them. Usually the Brotherhood of Saint Benedict would buy them and set them free. (Perdigão, 1944, p. 238) In addition, Habeas corpus is applied to slaves on trial that kill or wound their master in self-defence, meaning that a slave is not a thing, but a person. On the contrary, Jamaica gave no protection or voice to the security of their slaves. However, the abuse of female slaves was not protected by the law as it was legally acceptable that masters rape or molest slave …show more content…
Such as working endlessly in mines, digging caves with diamonds. Slaves would steal diamonds and use it to buy their freedom from their master. Others ran away and were posted in local newspapers such as the O Diario de Janeiro with a reward for their capture. Yet those that were not captured formed quilombos which were communities of fugitive slaves as they defended themselves against capitães do mato, bounty slave hunters. These quilombos would fight for the slaves they left behind while maroons were granted freedom with the condition to return escaped slaves. The most successful quilombo was he republic of Palmares that united in 1603 under Zumbi ruler of the African kingdom with the purpose to rescue other slaves and be the controller of their own destiny (Keen, Haynes, 2004, p. 129). Many fugitive slaves in Brazil also had the ability to run off to other nations while Jamaican slaves were geographically restricted by the island leaving a sense of