HIS244H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Manumission, Toussaint Louverture, Constitution Of Haiti
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Oral histories are another example that historians are interested in: oral history is complicated, because stories can get distorted over time. Indigo (a blue dye) produced from a green plant, tobacco, and cotton was slave incentives. Sugar produced by a cane, and this cane only grows in a warm climate. Slaves were key to the entire line of the sugar cane being tended to and processed: material history (material culture) was also an example of the existence of slavery. Act, the same ship had regularly carried over 600 slaves: this was a terrifying business, with calculations based on profits, through the 17th-18th century, transportation of slaves became more efficient, death tolls reduced. Death occurred because of scurvy, malnutrition, epidemic diseases, typhoid fever, etc: this was a terrifying economy built on humans, it presents a paradox. Jamaica had a lot of slave revolts. (jamaica experienced slave revolts from 1673 and 1766). Possessed a large maroon of slaves: topography mattered.
