TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 1 2. Bakcground………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 2 3. Africans……………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 3 4. Europeans…………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 5. Madeirans…………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 6. East Indians……………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 7. Contracts……………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 8. Effects………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 9. Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………………………...Page
INTRODUCTION
This project is based on the topic Adjustments to Emancipation from 1838 – 1876. It focuses on the Coming of the Chinese, Europeans, Indians and Africans into the Caribbean. Information is provided about their reasons for migration, working conditions and their effects on the Caribbean.
Slavery was the initial labour system used by Europeans on their plantations in the Caribbean. It was implemented in the 1600s, the Europeans forcefully took people from the African continent to the Caribbean on various trips. The path in which the slaves were carried between Africa and the Caribbean is now known to historians as the triangular trade. These Africans and those from the African lineage became slaves on the plantations where they were not seen as humans and were treated as animals or property.
After the freedom of the enslaved population on the plantations in the 1830s, the planters were faced with irregularity of labour on the estates. This was because many of the slaves had left the plantation to go start a new life. In addition, the remaining population had cultivated land of their own; often when it was harvest time instead of harvesting the crops on the estates, the freed people would harvest their own crops which posed a problem to the planters. As a result of this major problem, planters now had