Theme 3- Resistance and Revolt

STheme 3- Resistance and Revolt 1. Read the extract below, and then answer the questions that follow.
“The French Caribbean, unlike the British Caribbean, had, after 1685, a slave code drawn up by the mother country as the basis of their slave laws. However, the contrast between the French and the British with regard to the slave laws was not as great as the contrast between the Spanish and the British territories”
Adopted from Elsa Goveda,
“The West Indian Slave Laws of the 18th Century”
In H. Beckles and V. Sheperd (eds)
Caribbean Slave Society and Economy: A Student Reader
Ian Randle Publishers Ltd. Jamaica:
James Currey, London, 1991, p.354.

(a) Give the name of the French ‘slave code’ mentioned in the passage. (2 marks) (b) Why did the French Caribbean need ‘a slave code drawn up by the mother
Country’? (5 marks) (c) Explain why the British Caribbean did not have a slave code drawn up by the
Mother country. (4 marks) (d) What were the MAIN differences between the slave laws of the Spanish and
The British Caribbean? (8 marks) (e) State FOUR ways in which WITHER the French OR the British sought to
Control the economic life of the slaves. (6marks)

Total 25 marks

2. (a) Why did the slaves in St. Domingue succeed in overthrowing the system
Of slavery at the end of the 18th century? (15 marks)
(b) How were the British islands affected by the events in St. Domingue? (10 marks)

Total 25 marks

3. (a) Why were there so many slave revolts in the British Caribbean during early
Years of the 19th century? (10 marks)
(b) What measures did the planters use to deal with their rebellious slaves? (7 marks)
(c) Give FOUR reasons to explain why the slaves failed to destroy the system
Of slavery in the British Caribbean. (8 marks)

Total 25 marks

4. (a) Explain why ant ONE of the following slave revolts achieved early success. (i) Berbice 1763 (ii) Barbados, 1816 (iii) Jamaica 1831 (10 marks)

(b) Explain why the revolt you have chosen finally failed. (15 marks) Total 25 marks