Slaves have influenced every sphere of jamaican life

was intricately intertwined with the system of slavery. Slaves have influenced every
sphere of Jamaican life and their contributions are immeasurable.
Barbados: Sugar cane cultivation in Barbados began in the 1640s, after its introduction
in 1637 by Pieter Blower. As it developed into the main commercial enterprise, Barbados
was divided into large plantation estates which replaced the small holdings of the early
English settlers as the wealthy planters pushed out the poorer. To work the plantations,
black Africans – primarily from West Africa – were imported as slaves in such numbers
that there were three for every one planter. Increasingly after 1750 the plantations were
owned by absentee landlords living in Britain and operated by hired managers.
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The slave
trade ceased in 1807 and slaves were emancipated in 1834. Life expectancy of slaves
was short and replacements were purchased annually.
New Spain: The Viceroyalty of New Spain was an integral territorial entity of the
Spanish Empire , established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish colonization of the
Americas . European diseases immediately affected the multiethnic Indian populations in
the Veracruz area and for that reason Spaniards imported black slaves as either an
alternative to indigenous labor or its complete replacement in the event of a repetition of
the Caribbean die-off. During the period 1580-1640 when Spain and Portugal were ruled
by the same monarch and Portuguese slave traders had access to Spanish markets,
African slaves were imported in large numbers to New Spain . Labor for the mines in the
north of Mexico had a workforce of black slave labor and indigenous wage labor, not
draft labor.
Arthahastra (What is slavery pg. 34) updated
Written by Emperor Chandragupta around 300 bce, noted that persons could
become enslaved by selling themselves to someone, through inheriting the status, as
a punishment for a crime or because of their war-captive status.
Ambundu: They are a Bantu people living in Angola 's North-West, North of the river
Kwanza . The Ambundu speak Kimbundu , and mostly also the official language of the
country, Portuguese . They became a target for the slave trade, and its population fled in
large numbers to neighbouring states.
2.
1450: Portuguese arrive on West Coast of Africa.
1470: A few hundred black slaves a year are traded to/from? portugal and
spain.
1518: 4000 Africans sent to New Spain.
1607: Jamestown is established by British settlers.

1619: Dutch ship brought first indentured servants to Jamestown, Virginia.
1621: Dutch West India Company granted charter
1630: Sugar introduced to Barbados
1641: Massachusetts becomes first state to legalize slavery
1655: English captured Jamaica.
1661: Barbados slave code, marking slaves as “property” and the beginning of
legal codification of slavery English captured Jamaica.
1672: Royal African Company was formed
1712:Law created in the Northwest that allowed slave owners to punish their
slaves for crimes and offences. In New York, a slave code was created where
slaves found guilty of murder, rape, and arson or assault will be punished with
death