Writing history essay

During working hours in the sugar fields the slave who at some point share the same culture were not allowed to work in a single or same place of work. After completion of the available piece of work in the field the slaves were then retained in the homesteads of the farm owners in order to continue with the remaining portion of the work in the coming day. The slaves were advised to live in accordance to the already laid down procedures and codes of conduct while performing their duties. Tough measures would also be applied to those slaves who went against the rules. An extend of killing the slaves was also possible since by then killing an African slave was allowed by law.

Nearing the end of the 1770s, a group of people in Europe began to form an organization to fight or counteract the process of slavery in Europe. The organization worked tirelessly to ensure the practice was abolished because it surely went against the wishes of humanity. Their struggle bore fruit and the organization was registered as a society to teach the society the importance of ending slave trade. There after in the early 1880s a law was successfully passed to stop the act of slave trade in British ships and territories. It happened then happened that other countries followed the same exercise by passing similar laws. Due to the enactment of such laws it led to the collapse of various industries in the sugar sector, because it led to the eventual release of the slaves without prior notice to the sugar plantation owners.

Some countries for example Cuba went on with the act of slave trade for a greater span of time until the year 1888 when they found it was necessary to end the unprecedented act of oppressing the mankind. The Dutch released their slaves’ in1863; Puerto Rico released theirs in 1873. Most of the released slaves opted to become peasant farmers and had to buy land for use in their farming activities, part of the slaves who were not able to get land had to revert to their initial life in the sugar plantations.

SLAVE RESISTANCE