Social Structure- British Caribbean
White- this includes the planters
Caribbean History- 4th Form-Sem 1 Exam study Guide
18th century Caribbean Society & Slave Control
Chattel Slavery= slaves as actual property who could be bought, sold, traded, inherited
=Plantocracy- elites+ authorities in an economy based on plantation work
=Forestocracy- elites+ authorities in an economy based on lumber extraction
“Free Coloureds”- people of African heritage
that were not slaves+ previously were slaves
then freed or born with European heritage and
freed for it.
African Slaves- Africans stolen from West
Africa & enslaved in the Americas
Las Siete Partidas =slave codes for the Spanish territories
Social Structure- French Caribbean
Code Noir= slave codes for the French territories
Grand Blancs=wealthy white plantation owners
Petit Blancs=whites with lesser power and wealth+ eg. Artisans
Resistance & Revolts
=Insurrectionary [more violent direct+ eg. Revolting] vs Non-insurrectionary [non-violent direct+ eg. Ignoring names] forms
=Militia- local men used to supress slave revolts
=Maroonage- slaves running away and forming independent communities------------ [Cimaron- runaway slaves in Spanish Caribbean]+
[Bush Negroes- runaway slaves name in Guinea Coast]
=Maroonage in Jamaica- key terms- Trelawney Town + Nanny + Ashanti
=Revolts- key terms- Tacky (Jamaica 1760) + Kofi (Berbice 1762)
= Haitian Revolution- key names= Toussant l’Ouverture + Jacques Dessalines + Vincent Oge
Will & Sharper= slave rebellions in Belize along the Sibun
Abolition of Slave Trade
Abolition of Slave Trade- 1807
Sugar Duties Act 1763
Nabob?
The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade- Slogan: “Am I not a man and a brother”
The Rise of the British Empire and the changing West Indian lobbying power in the British Parliament
The Contributions of the West Indies to the British Empire
Challenges to Slavery
The Clapham Sect- organization of abolitionist whom served at the Rev. John Venn in Clapham- South London
 Members- William Wilberforce (member of House of Commons); Granville Sharp (& the Mansfield Judgement) (Sierra
Leone-Province of Freedom); Thomas Clarkson (philanthropist); James Ramsey; James Stephen; Zachary Macaulay (under
manager on a Jamaican sugar estate)
 Campaign Methods- pamphlets; paraphernalia; books; testimonials; public meetings; revolts by slaves; challenges in the
courts
The Quakers – Society of Friends- considered pioneer anti-slave campaigners
Slave Resistance- even though there had emerged this Metropolitan
movement to Abolish slavery, the slaves were the first
and most resistant opposition to slavery