10+a.+Forms+of+Slave+Control


 * __Forms of slave control__**


 * **__Physical control__** - Slaves were chained together, whipped and beaten for minor offences. They were also mutilated, hanged and burnt in public.

The Siete Partidas was a set of 13 th Century Laws meant for Spain at the time that were adjusted and applied to the Spanish Caribbean colonies.These laws gave slaves rights to enter te Catholic church. It was also cncerned with preserving the Catholic religion and preventing inter marriage.
 * __Legal Control__** - Laws were passed in the colonies to prevent enslaved Africans from having rights. Laws such as the Code Noir of the French Caribbean and the Siete Partidas of the Spanish Caribbean colonies.


 * __Social Control__** - Slaves were prevented from mixing with each other and other groups in society, they could not move around freely and they were unable to gather in groups.


 * __**Cultural Control**__ - Slavs were not allowed to practise their African cultural forms. This was done to strip them of an identity so they would be easier to control.It was for this reason that laws were passed to ban drumming and dancing by Africans in the Caribbean. The planters also made sure that they did not buy slaves only from one tribe since this would have made it easier for them to communicate with one another and plan revolts.


 * __Divide and rule__**- The enslaves population was divided into different groups and deliberate efforts were made to keep them apart. Some slaves were appointed as headmen and drivers to keep a check on others.**


 * __Economic Control__** - Slaves were seen as property and were not supposed to own property of their own, so the whites sometimes prevented them from owning provision land and domestic animals which they would use to reate a side income in the Sunday market.

Psychological and ideological - Whites believed that African societies were barbaric and that blacks were inferior beings. Slaves after years of slavery came to believe the racism and accepted white cultural values. Back culture, religion, music and art were frowned upon and insulted. Blacks began to accept white social divisions and some began to dislike each other. Some degrading terms used by whites to degrade blacks were buckra, coloured, red leg and nigger.