The period of slavery in the Caribbean History essay
Crucially, the Caribbean was the place where slavery took its most extreme legal form in the instrument known as the Slave Code, first instituted by the English in Barbados. Both indentured servants and convicts were held as chattel, albeit in a temporary form. This essay suggests that historians of both slavery and unfree labor are abstract. As questions of racial reparations have returned to public and political debate, and research into the long-term effects of slavery, global inequality persists despite the achievements of the human rights project to date, as Kofi Annan highlighted. The Caribbean calls for reparations for assets. These concepts, wage slavery and white slavery, encouraged workers to consider whether there was indeed such a great distance between free labor and property. The term psychoresistance, coined by the author of this article, refers to a strategy of defense and deception used by enslaved Africans during British Caribbean slavery 1650-1838. A History of Barbados: From Indian Settlement to Nation State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Beckles, Hilary McD. 1996. The concept of 'white slavery' in the English Caribbean during the early seventeenth century. In John Brewer amplifier Susan Staves eds. Early modern views on property. New York,