QUESTION: What evidence is there to prove that the Africans, who arrived in the British West Indies between the years 1655 and 1807, were ill-treated?

THEME: Caribbean Economy and Slavery

OBJECTIVES:

♣To examine the horrors of British West Indian Slavery

♣To assess the conditions that slaves worked under in British plantation slavery

♣To discuss the reason slavery was fought against by humanitarian groups
♣To investigate why slavery was overly detested by slaves

♣To see how British West Indian planters abused slaves to the point where they were treated like animals

RATIONALE:

Slavery was an interesting period in British West Indian History. It was comprised of various sectors aimed at one goal, which was to make a profit, no matter what. Slavery was nothing to be adored because it only wrought bitterness for the enslaved individuals. A simple prognosis is found in the words of the great poetic philosopher and journalist José Martí, in one of his writings “Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath”. The Hinterlands of West Africa was where it started, and it followed through with a lot of suffering and peril before finally ending in catastrophe for the planters and initial exultation for the slaves. This research will educate the reader about the conditions under which slaves produced the various cash crops in the British West Indies.

INTRODUCTION
The horrible treatments of slaves will be forever engraved in the history books. The obvious effects have been past down to generations and have been expressed through racist evil behaviors. The hatred spread down through generations like wildfires on a hot summer day in a wild bush. The evils of slavery were so major that the half could never have been told. But how all this ill-treatment come to “a head”, was out of the want for anew labour source in the Sugar Revolution. Planters wanted to