Tobago Abolition and Emancipation (An Analytical History of Tobago Book 12)

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In general, Africans who were enslaved operated over and above the norm and not as uncivilized morons as has been marketed by Europe. The resourcefulness of Africans is clear when viewed against the outcome of experiences by the Native Americans, the Amerindians of the Caribbean and other exploited cultures. Indeed hazards of the commute from Africa to plantations in the Western Hemisphere were elements of natural selection. Only the most productive survived!

Changes were on the way at the same time as planters on Tobago worked feverishly to have the island up and running as a sugar producer after it used to be recolonized in 1764. Step one in that direction used to be signaled by a call for the abolition of the African Slave Trade. On April 4, 1775, The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery, for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Making improvements to the Conditions of the African Race used to be founded. It’s notable that this organization used to be founded as the outbreak of the American War of Independence used to be imminent. Bitter rivalries were all the time part of the equation. With regards to the formation of The Pennsylvania Society Lowell Ragatz concluded that the call for the abolition of the African Slave Trade used to be an effort to weaken the hands of the Planter Class. He states, “With estate owners at the height of their prosperity, the undermining of the Old Plantation System in the British West Indies used to be begun”.

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