L1: Coercive Labour and Legacies of Slavery

Question 1

What are the 5 types of coercive labour? (5)

Answer 1

Corvee Labour (1)

Indentured Labour (1)

Debt Peonage (1)

Slavery or Enslavement (1)

Modern-day Slavery (1)

Question 2

What is corvee labour? (2)

Answer 2

Labour that unpaid and unfree (1)

Lasts a limited amount of time (1)

Question 3

What is an example of corvee labour? (1)

Answer 3

Labour imposed by the state for public work as a levy

Question 4

Why might someone enter into indentured labour? (1)

Answer 4

To pay for specific payments or meet legal obligations

Question 5

What is indentured labour? (2)

Answer 5

When the employee is bound by a contract to work for an employer for a fixed time (1)

The contract allows the employer to sell the employee to a third party (1)

Question 6

What is debt peonage? (2)

Answer 6

Pledging someone’s services as security for a repayment of debt (1)

The labourer essentially works for free and will most likely be in debt for life (2)

Question 7

What is slavery and enslavement? (2)

They’re the same thing, but terms used interchangebly

Answer 7

Slavery is a state and condition that is done to an individual (1)

The indivdual becomes the proeprty of someone else (1)

Question 8

What are examples of modern-day slavery? (2)

Answer 8

Illegal migrants may be tricked into doing sex work (1)

Those indigenous to a country and with learning difficulties struggle to defend themselves (1)

Question 9

What were Polygenist theories of mankind? (1)

Answer 9

Theory that European “others” were a different species or part of nature

Question 10

What is the slavery-to-kinship continuum? (2)

Answer 10

Slaves belonged to the master’s household (1)

But wasn’t KIN because the slaves lacked social obligation (1)

Question 11

What are consequences of slaves not being part of their master’s kin? (2)

Answer 11

Their lack of social obligation implied a lack of rights (1)

Results in institionalised marginality (1)

Question 12

What does the involvement of sugarcane in the Carribbean plantations show? (2)

Answer 12

History is made by humans AND non-humans (1)

Particular properties of sugar cane may have contributed to plantation histories (1)

Question 13

Why is sugarcane associated with slavery? (2)

Answer 13

Sugar cane needed hard labour for its processing and cultivation (1)

Harvesting sugar was hard and labourious work (1)

Question 14

Why was sugar important for the European industrial revolution?

Answer 14

Those moving from the countryside to the city needed to be fed since they were away from their previous substinence (1)

Workers were fed sweet food with cheap sugar from plantations (1)

Question 15

What profound changes did the Translantic trade bring for the Oyo Kingdom in Niger, delta? (2)

Answer 15

The Oyo became a major supplier of slaves to Europeans (1)

The Oyo traded European manufactured goods for horses (1)

Question 16

How many Africans were captured, enslaved and shipped to the Caribbean? (1)

Answer 16

10-12 million

Question 17

How did Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia 1676 lead to the creation of the “white race”? (2)

Answer 17

Poor white people joined with African slaves and freed servants against the colonial upper class (1)

The upper class responded by emphasising slavery as a racial category to divide their opponents and prevent further uprisings (1)

Question 18

What determined who should access wealth, priviledge, respect, loyalty and power? (1)

Answer 18

Race

Question 19

What effects did slavery have on the entire African continent? (3)

Answer 19

Reshaped the continent’s political economy (1)

Depleted the population (1)

Destroyed many African societies (1)