"As this commerce in people grew, kidnapping became an everyday thing in London and Bristol. Young girls who had been jailed for disorderly conduct were cordially asked to leave for the West Indies...To be sentenced to forced labour in the New World became so much a part of everyday life that people began to speak of someone having been "barbadosed" -- sentenced to work in Barbados or one of the other Caribbean colonies."

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#Antigua
#Slavery
#CaribbeanHistory

"Planters...held firmly to the belief that working peoples - black or white - should be paid only the absolute minimum to keep them alive and working...Nearly ten years after the #Emancipation, the wage paid to a black working on contract was less than what it had cost to feed, clothe, and shelter a #slave...Working conditions remained virtually the same as they had for his #enslaved great grandmother and...brutality continued to be the normal course of events."

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