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    The document discusses the social structure and systems of control used in Caribbean plantation societies to maintain the enslavement of Africans. It describes how legislation, racial hierarchies, and the division of enslaved people into gangs based on age, sex and skills reinforced white supremacy and domination. Newly arrived enslaved Africans underwent a period of "seasoning" to learn the rules of enslavement through punishments, separation from their ethnic groups, and being given new names.

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    The document discusses the social structure and systems of control used in Caribbean plantation societies to maintain the enslavement of Africans. It describes how legislation, racial hierarchies, and the division of enslaved people into gangs based on age, sex and skills reinforced white supremacy and domination. Newly arrived enslaved Africans underwent a period of "seasoning" to learn the rules of enslavement through punishments, separation from their ethnic groups, and being given new names.

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    PLANTATION SOCIETY:

    STRUCTURE AND INTERACTION

    OBJECTIVES
    Discuss how the structures of Caribbean society maintained enslavement through
    legislation, race, social and economic discrimination.
    Systems of Control

    • 1. Legislation

    • Most of the colonial governments - implemented laws to


    provide guidelines dictating how enslavers and enslaved should
    behave under the system of enslavement.

    • Spanish - Siete Partidas

    • French - Code Noir

    • British - Slave Laws determined by the country island assembly.


    Barbados passed the Slave Code in 1661 and a later version in
    1688, while Jamaica, Antigua, and St. Kitts passed similar slave
    laws later
    European/White

    European/White

    European/White

    2. Social Structure
    of Slave Society
    • Plantation society was organised in such a way that all
    members knew their place, their obligations, responsibilities
    and behaviours

    • Slave societies were organised based on race and/or colour.

    • The lighter one’s complexion the greater power, affluence


    and freedoms one had; the darker one’s colour the lower on
    the social ladder one was.

    • The more European blood one possessed the higher one


    was on that social ladder

    • The more African blood one possessed the lower one was
    the social ladder
    Social Structure of A Sugar
    Estate
    3. Divisions of Enslaved
    Persons on Estates
    • Divisions were created on estates to ensure order and
    control. This was a hierarchical structure which assigned
    specific roles and functions which were determined on
    race and colour, job, age, sex, place of birth and physical
    ability.

    • Skilled Workers: Blacksmiths, carpenters, laundresses,


    fishermen, midwives, watchmen and head carters.

    • Were mostly men, and many were mixed raced. They


    were more likely to receive special privileges such as
    additional items of clothing and money.
    • Below the skilled workers were field workers, and the majority
    were female. They performed the hardest and most degrading
    work.

    • They were divided into 3 gangs

    • 1st Gang: 15 to 35 years. Cleared fields, weeded, planted


    canes

    • 2nd Gang: 8 to 14 years. Cut grass, took care of estate animals

    • 3rd Gang (or pickaninny gang): 6 and 7 years. Attend to


    livestock, light weeding, carried water to field workers

    • Elderly and disabled took care of infants and prepared meals


    4. Seasoning

    • 2 to 3 years where enslaved learned the rules of being


    enslaved workers:

    • Given new name

    • Separated from persons who were from their ethnic


    group, spoke the same language etc.
    Punishments and Rewards

    • Punishments: whippings, cutting off of limbs and other


    body parts, walking the treadmill, being shackled, having
    to stand in ants nests, being hanged.

    • Rewards: receiving extra items of clothing, job promotion,


    rum and sugar, extra time to go see relatives and friends

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