Carrie Gibson Quotes


… living death …


Context

The slavery in the Caribbean was actually worse than in the American South in a number of respects. Most notably, slaves in the Caribbean did not have the economic value that those in the American South did. As a result, in the final analysis, Southern slave owners tried to maintain the lives of their slaves if the cost was not too high. But in the Caribbean for many slave owners, the slaves were expendable—work them until they drop and then replace them.


Citations

Carrie Gibson, Historian & Journalist, Chaptalization of Colonial Slavery in the Caribbean, Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day, 2015

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