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When indigenous populations
of the Americas and Caribbean had all but died out, either through
conflict with Europeans or diseases they had brought with them, European
settlers looked to Africa for labourers to cultivate their plantations.
Work in the fields that grew sugar, rice, tobacco or cotton was intense
and exhausting. Punishments were severe and slave masters exercised
their power and control. As Europe enjoyed its new slave produced
luxuries like sugar, enslaved Africans were forced to endure some
of the harshest conditions on the plantations across the Atlantic.
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workers cutting sugar cane © Anti-Slavery International
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Enslaved workers cutting sugar cane |
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