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Slavery in the British West

Indies.Kidnapped or bought as a slave,

These West Africans.

Wave after wave,

They are forced into labour by Europeans.

Taken along a horrible and inhumane journey,

To slave till death on sugar plantations,

n a !ritish "olony,

#ue to the rise in the demand for sugar by the Europeans.

Their numbers increased as well as their su$erings.

They were treated cruelly and inhumanely,

And forced to work long, hard, strenuous hours,

%ntil &'() when they were *nally free.



Slavery in the British West Indies.

+lavery in the !ritish West ndies was the use of West Africans they kidnapedor bought as slaves. These slaves were taken along a horrible and inhumane

journey through the iddle -assage to the !ritish "olonies where they were

forced to work long, strenuous hours of hard labour for no pay on the +ugar

-lantations and were treated cruelly. The need for these slaves were due

mainly to the increase for the demand for sugar by the Europeans. This

continued until slavery was abolished in &'() but they were not fully free

until &'(' due to the four year period of apprenticeship.

A slave being punished.

The economic factors that contributed to the

end of Slavery in the British West Indies:A major factor was that the production of sugar using slave labour was no

longer pro*table to the planters because slavery itself became epensive

with buying the slaves, maintaining them and having to pay arm forces to

prevent revolts and runaways. Another key factor was that sugar produced

elsewhere including in ndia and auritius was much cheaper than sugar

being produced in the !ritish West ndies. Another major reason was that

plantation owners had to compete with beet sugar being produced in Europe

during and after the /apoleon Wars.



n search of a cheap labour source,

After +lavery came to an end,

The !ritish needed a new labour force,n which they could depend

The East Indian Indentureship

Scheme.After slavery was abolished the !ritish were in search of a cheap labour source of

labour to continue the work which many freed slaves refused to do. The !ritish thenbegan to recruit contract labourers from ndia through a "alcutta agency to aid the

struggling sugar industry in the West ndies. The labourers came to the West ndies

under a system known as the ndentureship +ystem also known as the 0coolie

system1 or 0cheap labour1 where people were encouraged to come to the /ew

World to work for a number of years to continue the work that was done by the

enslaved Africans. They were paid wages and at the end of their contracts they

were given a free passage back to ndia but due to circumstances many of them

renewed their contracts. 2ater on the were given the choice to either take the return

passage to ndia or a portion of land. The ndentureship system ended in &3&4.

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