They cut sugar cane, mined precious metals, constructed buildings, etc.
Many slaves in the Caribbean worked on sugar plantations. Others worked in industries such as coffee, tobacco, and cotton.
The majority of African slaves were sent to the Americas, particularly to regions in the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Southern United States, to work on plantations producing labor-intensive crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton.
Slaves in the Caribbean were primarily involved in agricultural work, cultivating crops such as sugar, tobacco, coffee, and cotton on plantations. They were forced to perform grueling labor under harsh conditions, often subjected to physical and emotional abuse by their owners. Many slaves also worked in industries like mining, construction, and domestic service.
Yes, there were black slaves in France, particularly during the period of colonial expansion and the transatlantic slave trade. Slavery was legal in French colonies, such as in the Caribbean, where many black slaves were brought to work on plantations. Additionally, there were some instances of black slaves in mainland France as well.
Planters in the Caribbean used various physical punishments on slaves, including whipping, branding, and use of instruments like the bullwhip or cat-o'-nine-tails. Slaves could also be subjected to harsh labor, confinement in stocks or dungeons, and even amputation in extreme cases as a form of punishment.
Europeans brought African slaves to Caribbean
they used slaves on Caribbean sugar plantations
Many slaves in the Caribbean worked on sugar plantations. Others worked in industries such as coffee, tobacco, and cotton.
Slaves in Virginia were better off than slaves in the Caribbean because there was enough land to grow food as well as cash crops. Therefore, the slaves had more to eat.
A revolt by African slaves in the Caribbean against French colonists.
tabacco
caribbean islands
The African slaves
Most of the slaves shipped to the Americas ended up in Brazil and the Caribbean Islands because they needed a continual influx of new slaves.
Britain to Africa to get the slaves to the Caribbean/America to sell slaves and back again
The Garafuna are descended from slaves that were shipwrecked on
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