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Social and political control in the slave society,ivil liberties.. Between the early sixteenth century when slaves were introduced into the region in large numbers by Spanish settlers at Hispaniola, and the end of the nineteenth century when slavery was finally abolished throughout, slave owners experienced incidents and episodes of violent slave unrest that destroyed profits, property and lives.

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Introduction,bbean its historical watershed, its illustri-ous moment, its . and its .. No other occurrence came close to that, including the accidental arrival of Christopher Columbus and his ‘doom burdened caravels’ in 1492.

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Book 2003ean social reality. Topics addressed include: European ‘settler colonies,‘ the sugar revolutions, forms of resistance, the influence of creolization and religious beliefs, and the place of the Maroon communities. Knight also examines the internal and external forces that led to the eventual collapse of the Caribbean slave system.

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The demographic structure of the Caribbean slave Societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centurise areas colonized by European nations. By 1700 its population was about three-fifths black, almost all enslaved, and the population of Amerindians had almost disappeared on the islands and was quite small on the Guyanese coastal areas of South America and in British Honduras in Central America. In

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The social structure of the slave societies in the Caribbean,n, caste and class. This is in part because these soci- eties evolved in a similar pattern. Europeans largely destroyed the native Amerindian population, imported Africans as slave labourers, and developed the plantation system. Although slaves formed the backbone of these societies, the other socia

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Maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean,nifested the opposition of some African slaves to their enslavement and a persistent desire to create a free society of their own. In the Western hemisphere, Maroon societies emerged virtually whenever and wherever a slave population existed. None the less, at any given time, Maroons comprised no mo

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Social and political control in the slave society,estment in African slave labour. In general, they aimed to minimize cost and maximize efficiency in the use and supervision of their human chattels. Slaves, however, concerned with the preservation of their humanity, and the establishment of social rights, proved difficult to control. The result of