Indian Labor Pros And Cons

Slavery has received enormous coverage for hundreds of years. Most of the histories that document this period in life are equally as detailed and diverse as the very victims of the vice. This essay will offer an in-depth analysis of three articles which represent cultural history, socio-economic history and finally gender history. The authors of these three articles handle this same historical topic differently through their renditions. The different treatment manifests itself through the type of sources the authors use, methodologies, political perspectives and the dates of writing, among other means. Stuart Schwartz’s Feb 1978 article “Indian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil”,

The article first of all describes the early years of slaves and colonization. This is further linked to the remarkable resurgence of focus on the national histories of the new world colonies. For instance many histories have argued that the nature of colonization during such times (17th and 16th) centuries as well as the modes of economic production then. For instance, in the article, Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the Americas were peripheral zones of capitalist expansion. As such, there were several elements of using slavery as a form coerced labor. Thus, chattel slavery was one of the forms of slavery practiced. Others have argued that it is the European merchants with an insatiable appetite for economic returns that created the African slavery and the imposition of the Trans-Atlantic slave

For instance he reports from historical sources that, for example, give some light to the ethnographies during this period. He has used other view points in the article to give it the necessary grounding. For instance the author employs the Jesuit view points on Indian culture and even Greek. They argued that “aldeias” success went hand in hand with the modified Indian culture. The gendered history comes up in this article too. The role of women in the Indian labor force has also been given credence. From the historical inventories used in the article, we are told that though the women played a crucial role in the labor force, such as in subsistence agriculture, their role remained largely diminished. Robert Hall’s article “Africa and the American South: Culinary Connections” uses varied sources to reflect on the issue of food movement and slave trade. The sources he uses include archaeological evidence, manuscript census, heights of slaves, levels of fertility, plantations, narratives as well as interviews with former slaves to form his perspective on slavery. What the author has majored in is anecdotal evidence derived from various people who either witnessed or wrote on this issue of