3.2 When sugar ruled the world: Plantation slavery in the 18th c. Caribbean
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- Most people are familiar with slavery in the antebellum US South. But do you know that in the 18th c. some Caribbean colonies like Jamaica and Haiti (Saint-Domingue) were more valuable economically than all of Britain's North American colonies? Join in as we explore the fascinating and gruesome history of slavery in the colonial Caribbean.
This video is part of a college-level course on modern non-Western history... specifically section 1 of the course (about forced labor in the Caribbean after 1492). To view the videos in order, go to youtube.compg245091 and select the "modern world history" playlist.
Exactly. Sheer horror in Jamaica 🇯🇲. Pure wickedness, but Jamaica 🇯🇲 nows got it. I'm Jamaican and will never ever give up my African land
Wow, if US students don't even know that ~95% of African slaves were shipped to the Caribbean and South America, the school system has failed to deliver a basic history education.
Personally, I would not start a course on Caribbean slavery in the year 1492. While this date seems significant now, and was obviously the date of the first transatlantic voyage from Europe to the Caribbean, plantation slavery had already been established by Genoese merchants (under Portuguese sovereignty) on the Madeira Islands a half century before Columbus's first voyage. And, to really understand the historical context, students would need to be aware of why Europeans started exploring the African coast and sailing west, when for centuries trade was flowing from Asia down the Great Silk Road and through the Mediterranean (ie, from east to west). The quick version is that the Black Sea ports were significant channels through which merchants of Venice, Florence and Genoa were able to control the trade of spices and other valuables from Asia, and were also a source for slaves. But after centuries of wars with the Ottoman Turks, the Venetian Navy's dominance over the Black Sea started to slip, and with it their main source for trade and slaves (most slaves at that time were Muslim prisoners of war). By the time the Portuguese started surveying the African Coast, there were already Genoese merchants trading there, and some permanent Genoese settlements. That Columbus was Genoese wasn't a coincidence either.
I would also stress that virtually all Western Europeans were involved in the transatlantic slave trade, either directly or indirectly via the provisions trade. Western Europeans who didn't have an empire (or were themselves ruled over by another European empire) often acted as agents for another empire, or even multiple empires in what historians describe as inter-imperial mercantile networks.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about slavery and how it changed over time. I also found your information about sugar extremely helpful, because I am working on a Historical Fiction book about slavery on a Louisiana Plantation in the 1800's. Everything that you explained here will help me immensely. Thanks again. Have a great day!
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This is awesome history being told in this TH-cam video,really cool.
My people from Guyana, 🇬🇾 Barbados 🇧🇧 and Jamaica 🇯🇲
I'm from the Caribbean and never knew this it was never thought in schools
Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines are my ancestors 💕🇭🇹
As many people have already commented, This video was very interesting and informing, I Had to watch for an Ap World assignment to help me understand Slavery in the Carribean. And this video helped a lot, Thanks, for sharing your knowledge on the topic.
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Merci beaucoup !!! I have an oral with friends, we have to speak during 10 minutes, you really helped us.
Thanks for posting this Prof. Girard. Caribbean history isn't something we on the mainland N. America are exposed to very much. I worked in the Caribbean region for about 4 years including Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. In that time my eyes were opened to a great many things including the shared history that the American South has with these people and places in the "Golden Circle". Perhaps you can make a video on "El Dorado" aka the Guianas at some point.
It isn't possible to be educated in US history without knowing anything about the Caribbean or Western Europe. The economy that existed at that time connected Caribbean and South American ports (where some 90% of the slaves were sent to) to North American and Western European ports. Similarly, people, goods and ideas flowed back and forth across the Atlantic, influencing both sides of the waters. Historians refer to this economic and cultural zone as the "Atlantic World" - meaning that you cannot study this period properly in geographic isolation on either side of the ocean.
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I'm really enjoying these lectures. It would benefit everyone to understand how history affects us all today, and perhaps to understand that violent confrontations between various peoples has, over time, spread knowledge and ideas. Granted, I prefer books and the internet to bloody conquest, torture and enslavement as a way of bringing the people of the world together. So maybe we can all work on that.
Informational but I hate how you said sex with a teenager could be anything BUT rape especially with the power dynamic during that time. Its rape, no other way to describe it.
There are many other carribean regions than just Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti. So many others, also in captivity traded off like Pokemon cards.. The colonizers descendants easily point out our "faults" but they never wanna hear about their own shit
I can’t imagine what my Caribbean ancestors went thru just a few generations ago. All because of greed . Utterly Evil. You can see why the African history is being erased by the colonizers . Pure guilt and evil. AND THEY KNOW IT.
great film that, with Brando in it...'Burn' or something wasn't it?!!
Thanks for a great educational video!
This was a very helpful video thank you
Thanks. Kindly explain decentralised Britain and centralised France and Spain.
learning the History of slavery is so cool I love it so much🎉❤
I did find this somewhat insensitive as you described it as run more like a company than enslavement. You gave the perspective of the overseers and owners, and not from the enslaved. For example you described the "roles" including "technical" but not the harsh conditions or risks. Many lost limbs in their work, and risked losing limbs if their overseers or owners were displeased in ANY way (and there were many). You describe rape as "sex". Love cannot exist as we define it in the power differential of OWNER and SLAVE. To say the perspective of the female slave is to "elevate her status with sex" is to insinuate that it is not an act of sheer survival to allow ones self to be sexually abused for the hope of freedom. One cannot compare this scenario to love. You describe brutalizing as "hurt or mistreat". That said, it was still informative.
in general lectures or more academic videos do adopt this, generally they describe these things very clearly and callously for the sake of clarity, rather than focusing on the grisly aspects
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This info is good I had to write a song or poem thank you
You forgot to mention the part about slave owners and the aristocrats like the kings and queens of england and france etc...that were eating slaves(black ppl) for medical reasons.
That’s a lot that wasn’t mentioned here, but we don’t have all the time in the world to mention/watch it all in one video
You have the handing over of Canada a bit wrong but great opinions on the slave trade.
Would YOU like to be forcefully sent to those places to live instead of by choice ?
What prompted you to do this video ?
question, were those drawing from Vudu came from? they look girly
What’s was the labor like?
St Eustatius was “the golden Rock” during slavery times with it’s slave market. Don’t forget that Slavery and Piracy did go hand in hand. No better place than the Caribbean. Everybody wanted max profits out of their “products”. North America, South America. The Caribbean was the central spot for the trade.
Of course suger was THE product. The Caribbean was, and still is famous for it’s rum and other alcohol drinks for which you need lots of sugar.
The majority of slaves in my Barbados were "blk" European mainly irish Scots and English they cleared the land and moved in , murderous deportes
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Barbados is" probably" the most historiic place in the west they actually colinised and populated Jamacia thats why you find so much irish names in Jamacian people because you see, they actually are not African but Irish scots brits and welch blk europeans and Barbados was actually owned by king James and his decendants who were actually blk people , b4 slavery barbados population were blk mainly and white indentured servants loyal to the blk monarchy in Uk=ireland scotland wales and England at this time slavery was outlawed in the common wealth this includes Barbados and all Common wealth owned islands including Jamacia etc etc.
Many people don’t realise there were blacks already in Europe who had to flee across to the americas around 1500/1600s. Not all blacks in the states are slaves but the narrative is that they are
This is 100% true.
I’m Dominican🇩🇴 but I’m black like really black so does that mean my ancestors were suger cane slaves 🤷🏾♂️
@@musiqworlmedia88 true ancestors what ?
The vast majority of black people in the Americas - i.e North, Central, South America and the Caribbean - are descendants of slaves from the Transatlantic Triangular trade.
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Well anyone that smart would know or should know that slavery didn't come from the south it from the Caribbean African and landed in the south that how all that shit got started
Puerto Rican Tianos would like you to know that they were NOT wiped out despite the best efforts of colonizers and slavers. They retreated to remote parts of the island where they have survived to this day.
It is a misconception that Africans were taken, It is Juda that was taken an scattered in all nation. To be more specific, it was a certain family of the dark races that was specially taken not egjyptions, not sudanese, not libyans, not ethiopians you get it?.
Is funny for spaniards when english or americans talk about history.
Fun fact
Usa legalice racial mix marriage in 1966
The spanish empire did it in the 1500. ( laws of indis ) Isabel did it and later his sons.
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The population rate was very low due to the violent and brutal behavior of slave masters and overseers to the slaves on these plantations which did not allow them a longer life span between the heat working and fundamental conditions where they were not treated very well pause them to die faster than normal
Lies dont be bamboosalled in these times when the truth is being revealed at rappid speeds.
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it's killing us all.
My grandmother lastname was St.Clair b4 she Married my grandfather whose lastname was lennards/Lenus only A real Scot or irish/English would know the real significance of these Family names.
Thank you for this piece of history but I noticed in the map at the very end of the video, St. Vincent and the Grenadines which is right after Grenada was not on the map why is that, you said it was St. Lucia which is false, St. Lucia comes after St. Vincent and the Grenadines they had a peace treaty with the French who first colonized the island th-cam.com/video/JJXTciSanbI/w-d-xo.html
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Hispaniola is the name for the island where both Haiti and Dominican republic resides
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Damn this dude just tried to justify slavery ? Saying what black people when though wasn't that bad wow this has me shookith. Legit everyone in the world used black people killed them raped them abuse them "but hey it wasn't that bad"and some places it still happens and due to not informing children in school they would believe that everything this guy say is true he has some point that are correct but not everything he's saying is right and is ignorant
I'll try to listen again with different ears. Did he say it wasn't that bad?
Cameron Parrish he did
I've dedicated my academic career to studying the life of Toussaint Louverture, who led the only successful slave revolt in the world: I can assure you that I do not condone slavery in any way, shape, or form!
In this video, I mention that some contemporaries tried to justify slavery by passing "benign" laws (like Louis XIV and Colbert in the Code Noir)... but then I go on to show that slavery on the ground was far more abusive than the law allowed.
@@pg245091 well I remember studying about the slavery in the Caribbean back in high school about slavery in the Bahamas and Jamaica. The Bahamas and Jamaica were both colonized by Britain during the 17th and 18th century and both nations were emancipated the same year in 1838.
@@sanchitodelranchito i think what he was saying is that .. in that time torture was acceptable for anyone. Whites included. So, in reĺation to that , not that it was okay. 👋🏾🇹🇹
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Also " blk" amerindian , we ain't no African we from Shem they from Ham, we are the real shemetic folk. They the oppresors are antisemitismo also the police ,semetic is not the word the word is Shemetic= decendants of Shem.
Sally Hemmings/Thomas Jefferson story is only modern-day history revisionism. The fact is, there are 7 male relatives of T Jefferson whos dna shows that either one of them could be the culprit who either raped or had an affair with Sally Hemmings. One in particular fit the type, an alcoholic womanizer Jefferson family member . Jefferson's character does not fit the type. Lovely as it might seem to descendants of Hemmings and Jefferson to lay claim to such an illustrious ancestor, Thomas was the least likely to be the culprit. We will never be able to prove any of it from DNA or by any other method.
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