4.4

Plantation System

• Massive “farms” grew throughout the New World

• Demanded a large labor force

• produced huge quantities of goods for sale (CASH CROPS)

“Coerced Labor”

• work compiled by force or intimidation from authority

• AKA forced labor

• AKA enslavement

• It is not a new concept or only in the New World

  • Russia still used serfs

  • There are several “types” used in the New World

Chattel Slavery

• This is what you think of when you think of “slavery”

  • The enslaved person and their children are property (chattel)

• About 90% went to Central/South America

• Europeans needed a large labor force

  • Why Africans?

• Horrors of the journey

  • Trial of the Zong