Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
@dampclay, Black Royalty, wrote:
Let’s start with a gentle reminder (I’m holding your hand and speaking slowly as I say this). The transatlantic slave trade
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
so brutal that the average life expectancy was seven years. Their model was to purchase and import enslaved Africans, work them to death, and restock. And sugarcane was so profitable that they could afford to do just that.
What were the consequences of sugarcane driving
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
the so-called slave trade?:� -Most enslaved people were men. The work was brutal and labor-intensive, and typically more men were imported than women.
- Because the work was labor-intensive, the number of enslaved people often outnumbered whites. This imbalance did not
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
go unnoticed and led to more revolts by enslaved people in Caribbean countries than in the U.S. (we can talk more about this later, because suppressing the ability of enslaved people to organize shaped many U.S. plantation practices - clock it).
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
(human trafficking of African peoples) is responsible for violently relocating roughly 12.5 million people from the continent of Africa to the Americas. The overwhelming majority of those who survived the Middle Passage (and by overwhelming I’m talking 95%) went to the
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
Caribbean and Brazil, where most were forced to work on sugarcane plantations.
Only about 3–4% arrived in what would become known as the United States of America.
The working conditions on sugarcane plantations, which were primarily in the Caribbean and Brazil, were
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
-Birth rates were low on sugarcane plantations. High mortality, intense working conditions, and gender imbalance also meant low fertility and birth rates.� -There was high cultural retention (this is important). Because most enslaved people were coming directly from
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
Africa, they had stronger, more proximate ties to their culture and language.
The brutal systems that the United States later employed were borrowed and adapted from the capitalist machine that was sugar plantations. Case in point: the United States
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
didn’t invent slave patrols, but they did formalize them as state-sanctioned operations. The United States did not create chattel slavery, but they did racialize it as a framework and make slavery a permanent legal status.
The brutality of sugar plantations paved the way for the brutal system of chattel slavery in the United States. The profitability of sugarcane financed the development of cotton plantations.
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