Slave plantations in the Americas

Overview[]

The planation it's self[]

They were large farms (500 to 1,000 acres) in the colonies of the Americas that used forced labour in the form of slaves to harvest cotton, rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco and other farm produce for trade and export.

Labour source[]

Masses of abducted Black Africans and thire decedents.

Labour rights[]

Slaves were expected to work as and when their owners and ‘overseers’ dictated with out question, had little rest and worked in shifts of up to 18 hours a day.

Punishment[]

It was not a crime to kill a slave per say on the island of Antigua until 1723. Whippings were normal, cruel and excessive punishment was commonplace, Black women were raped by White men in a lot of places and legally dubious executions of slaves happened on many occasions.

The CSA[]

One of the many (as sometimes valid) reasons for the Confederate States of America's session from the USA was the preservation of slavery and anti-Black racism.

Denial[]

A large segment of White British denied it ever took place, a large segment of White American say it was a good thing and some white French think the nation did not go as far as it actually did in the slave trade.

The users of it[]

The nations that once used it to varying degrees were:

Argentina, in small amounts.
Brazil, in large amounts.
Mexico, in small amounts.
Colombia, in small amounts.
Venezuela
Cuba
Haiti, in large amounts.
Dominican Republic, in large amounts.
Honduras
Paraguay, in small amounts.
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Puerto Rico (US), in small amounts.
Jamaica, in large amounts.
Trinidad and Tobago, in large amounts.
Guyana, in large amounts.
Suriname, in large amounts.
Guadeloupe (France), in large amounts.
Martinique (France), in large amounts.
Bahamas, in large amounts.
Belize, in large amounts.
Barbados, in large amounts.
French Guiana (France), in large amounts.
Saint Lucia, in large amounts.
Curaçao (Kingdom of the Netherlands), in large amounts.
Aruba (Kingdom of the Netherlands), in large amounts.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, in large amounts.
United States Virgin Islands (US), in large amounts.
The USA (and later the CSA), the worst offender.
Grenada, in large amounts.
Antigua and Barbuda, in large amounts.
Dominica, in large amounts.
Bermuda (UK), in large amounts.
Cayman Islands (UK)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
Saint Martin (France)
British Virgin Islands (UK)
Caribbean Netherlands (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Anguilla (UK)
Saint Barthélemy (France)
Montserrat (UK), in large amounts.

Also see[]

Oman's role in African slavery
African slavery and 18th-19th Century colonial abuse links