HIST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toussaint Louverture, Treaty Of Tordesillas, Code Noir
22 Dec 2015
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Hist1f90 slavery in the caribbean: europeans in the new world, procurement of slaves, slaves and the law, economic uses of slaves, slave life, manumission, slave resistance, slave rebellions. Terms: hispaniola; carib and arawak indians;treaty of tordesillas; indentured. Christopher columbus ended up discovering the new world as a result of competition between rival european monarchs to find passageway to trade riches of the orient and china. The first point of discovery in 1492 was an island in the bahamas. From there the spanish established contact with several caribbean islands settling on. Hispaniola (modern day haiti and dominican republic) as the basis of their new. In columbus" first report back to the spanish monarchs he spoke of the local carib and arawak indians: he claimed they were physically fit and would make ideal slaves. From 1492 onwards the spanish began to enslave the local natives putting them to work building fortifications, growing food and searching for gold.
