Migration to Belize

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  1. my name is knocking on the topic that I tools
  2. for my digital history project is slaver in beliefs.
  3. With this interrupted poor point, you will be taken on
  4. a journey down our country's ancestral past.
  5. I'll be focusing on how the enslaved Africans got to
  6. believe in the 17th century.
  7. Their involvement in the mahogany revolution tripped on the steps
  8. that were taken towards emancipation of the slaves in British
  9. Honduras on throughout the British Empire.
  10. Many of the slaves that were brought to believes were
  11. from Jamaica, but they originated from the Congo and Angola
  12. tribes off the continent of Africa.
  13. They had West Indies on West African blood.
  14. The male slaves were used for liver holding positions off
  15. Huntsman cattle.
  16. Zeman farmers livers on blacksmiths while the women were more
  17. domesticated, working in the house as cooks and bakers while
  18. taking care of the Children and cleaning up around the
  19. plantation. Here, examples of slave duties can be seen.
  20. On the left is a picture of two axeman cutting
  21. down very large mahogany trees.
  22. On on the right is a picture of a domesticated
  23. female slave working in the house washing clothes at the
  24. time. Slave cost around £300 in Jamaican currency.
  25. But there was a larger demand for male slaves because
  26. most of the British men wanted their slaves toe work
  27. in the forest looking for mahogany trees.
  28. On participating in the love would treat here is a
  29. primary source.
  30. Documentation off the total slave population during the time off.
  31. 17 45 to 18 38 work no for the mahogany
  32. revolution, the British first.
  33. Seldom Belize coming for love would they would still love
  34. with from the Spaniards on use it to make things
  35. such as synthetic dyes on furniture.
  36. But the British found that there was a greater demand
  37. for the mahogany wood in Great Britain.
  38. But mahogany was much harder toe harvest on fine than
  39. log would Waas.
  40. Hence the reason why they needed slaves to do much
  41. of the laboring.
  42. The Huntsman's duty was to go into the forest and
  43. find these great big mahogany trees.
  44. This was often a very difficult job, because back then
  45. there were no such things as flashlights, So the Huntsman
  46. had to go all hours of the day looking for
  47. these grand trees to be cut down.
  48. Once the tree was located, the axman will go and
  49. start cutting down the tree with taxes.
  50. They will cut the trees at both sides so that
  51. the trunk of the tree will become weak and eventually
  52. fall to the ground.
  53. Lastly, the cattleman would take these large logs off mahogany
  54. on, put them onto the transportation with the cattle.
  55. The cattle will then drug these logs over to the
  56. river to be transported down the river toe the sea
  57. where they were logged onto a large ship for transportation
  58. to Great Britain.
  59. There is a myth that the slaves and beliefs held
  60. better treatment than slaves around the rest of the world.
  61. That, I can say, is alive.
  62. These slaves went toe very, very bad forms of punishment.
  63. When their masters were upset with them.
  64. The slaves were punished by means of whipping, hanging human
  65. humanization. Ah, nde.
  66. Sometimes they were even killed.
  67. These are two documentations off evidence that these lives were
  68. very mistreated by their masters.
  69. One is off.
  70. A slave named Kitty, who is a was a color
  71. slave at the time.
  72. On dhe, she was whipped on chained because her master's
  73. wife, accuser, of having an affair with the husband.
  74. The second one is of a slave named Peggy, um
  75. zooming for more information.
  76. Peggy's punishment was very brutal on it was seen in
  77. front of a judge.
  78. Peggy was left for five days and five nights, and
  79. school did.
  80. For two days on.
  81. She was beaten and whipped on the buttocks and tie
  82. with a cat on with a cat 09 tails whip
  83. while sticks were driven into her back and she was
  84. just badly bruised and beaten.
  85. And this had to be seen before a judge.
  86. The slaves began to present their muscles for this type
  87. of treatment on decided to revolt against the punishment they're
  88. receiving. These revolts went on for a number of years,
  89. and they're The timeline shows a documentation off some of
  90. the most important revolt dates back in the day.
  91. That led up to the emancipation of the slaves on
  92. the abolishment off flavor throughout Great Britain, 17 45 was
  93. the slaves, very first revolt and show of resistance against
  94. the monsters cruelty the slaves have resisted many times before,
  95. using different tactics such as running away, hiding on even
  96. suicide attempts in 16th in 17 65 on 17 68
  97. There were two more slave revolts on during these revolts.
  98. The slaves went off with the Spaniards to new river,
  99. running away from their masters and showing some type of
  100. resistance. Yeah, in 17 73 there was a great uprising
  101. that began on me off this year.
  102. That was that that lasted several months.
  103. Officers were sent to contain the slaves, but many of
  104. the slaves ran away with the Spaniards.
  105. And this was known as the biggest revolt in Bolivia
  106. in history, off slaves in 18 or seven.
  107. This was not the day off.
  108. Several vote.
  109. But this has a lot to do with the emancipation
  110. of slavery.
  111. Um, you need to know seven.
  112. The app off the app off.
  113. Ah, but of the act of abolition was passed, making
  114. it illegal to purchase leaves in 18 20 was the
  115. last save revolt on this was led by will and
  116. sharper on.
  117. This revolt was lead at the Civil River on lasted
  118. many of months on in 18 38 emancipation off slaves
  119. and the great British Empire.
  120. This all leads up to the Emancipation period.
  121. The first move towards emancipation was registering all of the
  122. slaves during this time the Masters were compensated.
  123. And you're right for their loss of a slave or
  124. the slaves got nothing.
  125. Um, there was a time of a Prentice ship.
  126. Um, little seem to change, so it'll seem to change
  127. in terms of labor control.
  128. However, there were new power relations established between the masters
  129. and slaves.
  130. This seems like a good thing, however, cruelty and punishment
  131. very high during this time because the masters were upset
  132. that they were losing their slaves.
  133. Um, uh, super magistrate was appointed to a special magistrate,
  134. was appointed to each colony toe oversee relations and enforce
  135. that says we're doing their expected 45 hours off work
  136. per week.
  137. When the a pendant ship apprenticeship period was over, the
  138. slaves rejoiced, Um, away that they celebrated in Jamaica was
  139. they symbolized end of slavery by bearing a coffin containing
  140. a whip and chain inside of it, showing that slavery
  141. is now dead and believes held a prayer and a
  142. small celebration to commemorate the end of slavery and the
  143. emancipation. Thank you.
  144. And that is my little power point on slavery in
  145. Belize. On you can go back and read the poor
  146. points if you need more information.
  147. Thank you very much.