Chapter 13: Colonies of Sugar
In Chapter 13 under the “Comparing Colonial Societies in the Americas” section, Strayer writes about “In the Lands of the Aztecs and the Incas," "Colonies of Sugar" and "Settler Colonies in North America." For this post, I will focus on the "Colonies of Sugar" section, specifically responding to the comparison sidebar question: “ How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British North America ” (p. 568)? The plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differed from those of southern colonies in British North America in two main ways: treatment and racial system. In both north and south Americas, European empires noticed so much land and the opportunity for agriculture requiring a lot of labor, which was supplied by slaves. In North America,slaves "reproduced themselves, and by the time of the Civil War almost all North American slaves had been born in the New World" (p. 571). ...