Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
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The Sugar Plantation Complex and the Slavery Trade
The catholics did go further in christianizing enslaved people and free people of color, as compared to protestants. So there was at least a sort of base line recognition of some minimal humanity and minimal rights for even for enslaved people. By 17 hundred, colonies like barbadoes were specifically codifying in law that blacks and whites could not marry. And if i get a chance later, i'll talk about how all that then came to a head in the 17 hundreds, was the real heyday of the sugar plantation complex and the slave trade.
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