transformations and connections ii
UNIT 4: Belize in the Atlantic System up to 1838
4.1 Explain what it means to be enslaved.
WHAT IS AN ENSLAVED PERSON?
An enslaved person is owned by somebody else. A person is enslaved if they do not have personal freedom to move, decide who to work for or choose what work to do. An enslaved person is not usually paid, or paid a fair amount, for the work they are forced to do. An enslaved person is often subject to brutal and violent discipline inflicted by their owners.
An enslaved person is owned by somebody else. A person is enslaved if they do not have personal freedom to move, decide who to work for or choose what work to do. An enslaved person is not usually paid, or paid a fair amount, for the work they are forced to do. An enslaved person is often subject to brutal and violent discipline inflicted by their owners.
On form of modern day slavery is human trafficking. This is a serious problem for Belize.
|
Human trafficking also referred to as modern day slavery, is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of a person by means of threat or use of force or other means of coercion, or by abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or a position of vulnerability, or by giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Belize Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2013 |
4.2 Outline the geographic and economic features of the Trans-Atlantic trade system up to 1807.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
By 1700, most of the Americas had been turned into colonies of the major European countries. Spain controlled most of Latin America apart from the east coast of Central America and the northern part of south America. The Caribbean islands were mostly divided between Britain, France, Spain, The Netherlands. In North America, there was competition for control between Britain and France although in reality, their control was limited to the east coast.
|
KEY QUESTION: Some Europeans became very rich from the slave trade. Why do you think this was so?
|
|
4.3 Describe the occupations, treatment and family life of enslaved people in Belize up to 1838.
4.4 Examine the impact of colonial control practices on the inhabitants of Belize up to 1838.
4.5 Examine the methods used by enslaved peoples in Belize to resist enslavement and improve their living and working conditions.