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.
Topics
Caribbean
Death, Deaths
Pain
Slaves, Slavery, The Slave Trade
Despair, Desparation
Hopelessness
Loss
Mortality
Trauma
Anguish
Dystopia
Compliments
Expansionism, Colonialism, Imperialism
Eternal Nothingness
Existential Anguish
Finality of Life
Futility of Existence
Grim Reality
Inevitability of Death
Meaninglessness of Life
Spiritual Desolation
Existential Suffering
Death In Life
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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