Week 3: Enslavement (work) And Juan Roque

Question 1

Main work Slaves did (5)

Answer 1

1. Sugar Plantation
2. Gold Mines
3. Trades (skilled + less skilled)
4. Street Commerce
5. Domestic Service

Question 2

Sugar plantations: work must be done

Answer 2

Fast

Question 3

Ways to sabotage Plantation (2)

Answer 3

1. Slow down production (to get better working environments)
2. Burn down plantations (dry environments)

Question 4

Gold Mines: largest producer of gold in the world =

Answer 4

Minas Gerais

Question 5

Minas Gerais has what?

Answer 5

Largest population of free black slaves because they were able to buy their freedom

Question 6

Skilled Trades: High Skilled =

Answer 6

Slaves have more access to knowledge because of skills they learned. Don’t wear shoes to Marc status.
Negotiations are worth more because he know how to do things. More expensive.

Question 7

When could slaves negotiate

Answer 7

On Sundays and other religious holidays

Question 8

Skilled Trades: Low skilled =

Answer 8

Not hard to acquire. Would carry coffee. No shoes. Worked in gangs and competed with other gangs for work.

Question 9

Slave porters

Answer 9

Pay masters and keep small sum to self. Able to buy freedom. Able to hire people because masters aren’t looking over them. Owned but work independently. Here’s what happens in the streets. Mostly carry people.

Question 10

Street Commerce:

Answer 10

Selling things on the streets. Pay set fee to owner than keep the rest. Poor pay. Slaves bought from each other. Tended to be women. Could live away, but has to be negotiated.

Question 11

Domestic work:

Answer 11

Working home. Required lots of labor. Slave women would care for babies. Connections would be built.

Question 12

Connections between owners and domestic slaves

Answer 12

Opportunity to ask owners for things. Opportunity to be free.

Question 13

How did we seen families among free and enslaved black populations so far?

Answer 13

Juan Roque, leaving property to his daughter. The one guy who led the black militia and had a wife. The widow who became “queen” of a black confraternity after her husband died.

Question 14

Juan Roque

Answer 14

Left property to his daughter after he died. A part of two confraternities (Black Brotherhood of the Zape Nation and Brotherhood of the most Holy Sacrament). Had a list of masses to help him reach purgatory.