THE BLACK SLAVES WEEK 9A

The black slaves were brought by the spaniards to America few time after got here.This black people were captured by the europeans when they went to Africa, So all this black people in Colombia probably come from the black slaves of Africa captured by the Europeans. When the Black people came here, they were the ones who helped the Spaniards to do all the work. Years after the conquest the spaniards already had their own ranchs which occupied a wide space of land, and in each ranch there was around 4 slaves. And the slaves lived in little, ugly bad made shacks inside the wide space of the ranch ( of course that was in a different place of the house of Europeans).The shacks in which these slaves lived were small and had no rooms or kitchen, it was about 6x4 in which could get to live 6 families or 14 people.The way the Spaniards treated the slaves was really bad, the food and shelter were minmum, and because of this many black people were sick and in a bad situation.

Slaves Sickness
I dont want you to get a bad impression of the spaniards or the europeans but i am telling the story as i understand it. For the slaves not the only problem wasn't being a slave, but also the food, sickness and bad care.
First the lack of food made the Black people weak and their body needed calcium and vitamins. As they werent eating properly their problems begun because their bones break too easily, they had “hernias” and other problems. As well as excess of work, produced “carate, coto and bocio” sickness that involved swelling of parts such as throats. Also many black people had accidents like breaking bones and like they did not have medical attention always ever this little causes produced loss of exremities. So over the 25% of the black population in Colombia had something sick. AS the book says “especialmente la falta de consumo de hierro y vitaminas otras eran producto de las largas jornadas de trabajo” Colombia: Imagenes de su Diversidad, pg 94. The women were offerd as hookers in order to make their owners some money, and if these got pregnant they could keep their sons.

The Spaniards had to give three things to the slaves:

SHELTER: As I said they would give them a little space on their big ranches.

FOOD: Instead of giving them food they would give them another piece of land from where they find out what they could farm and hlave of the good thing they hyarvested was for the family and halve for themselves.

CLOTHING: The Land owners decided that this three things went out too expensive and so they decided to join both food and clothing, like these, whatever you cultivate or do with that land you have to use it as well as clothes.

This poor black people had no fault of their cause whatsoever, still their destiny was cruel but they kept the head up and today they are the 52% of our population.