The End to Slavery in the Caribbean

The end of slavery in the Caribbean finished the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), the first successful slave uprising in the Caribbean, one of the most important events in the history of the Americas. In addition to the obvious human rights interests of the Haitian Revolution, the country has also experienced some serious recession. From 1783 to 1789, Santo Domingo was the most important sugar producing country in the region, but the economy was completely destroyed by the end of the war, and to this day Haiti once was unable to regain an important economy in the Caribbean did. Status

Paradoxically, the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean Sea in Britain and France, and the abolition of slavery in most of the southern part of Spain, the number of slaves and slaves is increasing, not decreasing. Between 1815 and 1860, the American slave population tripled, plantation production tripled. American historian Dale Tomich called this a "second slavery system." Indeed, the historian research network of the US, Brazil and Cuba is studying the modernization of slavery that followed the early and middle period. - By the 19th century 1860, there were 6 million slaves in the Americas, and they produced more than two-thirds of total hemispheric exports. There are at least 40,000 in the United States, 10,000 in Brazil and more than 2,000 in Cuba.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Caribbean European colonialism became increasingly dependent on slavery cultivation and by the end of the eighteenth century many enshrined islands, enslaved Afro-Caribbeans were in Europe I exceeded my husband far. A total of 1,840,000 slaves arrived in other British colonies, mainly the West Indies of the Caribbean. Since the late eighteenth century, the harsh situation, the constant war between imperialists and the rise in human rights goals led the French Santo Domingo colony to the Haitian Revolution. In 1804, Haiti became the second country in the Americas with an absolute black slave population and leadership, established the Republic with winning European independence.