Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Societies in the Caribbean
Slave based societies in the Caribbean developed according to selections from “The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism” slowly as a result of the equal participation of both the masters and the slaves. Usually the color of one’s skin quickly determined which social group and what your occupation would be with of course the darker you are the lower your status and the lighter the higher. Eventually the Africans and whites started to mix and so did the color of the children which made them “not-so-good” field workers. The slaves of mixed race usually were craftier with the domestic, skilled, and artisan trades. The Caribbean tended to be pretty urban throughout.
What were the reasons for the development of plantation Societies ?
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is it that it was created so the it developed a form of socialization
ReplyDeleteTo get a profit for the mother country of the colonizers of the different Islands.
ReplyDeleteAlso to control the enslaved to do the will of their masters
slavery, wealth from the cash crops of the time weather it is sugar cane or cottonh
ReplyDeleteIt was developed as a result of the acculturation of mainly the Africans from the Europeans. It was a process of adaptation.
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