The British Empire

The British Empire
The British Empire declared of independence signed at second continental congress on July forth during the late 1776.colonialism is the use of a weaker countries resource to enrich and strengthen the stronger country. Imperialism is the when a country extend their rule over another country. The Atlantic slave trade was based on the selling of African slaves to the European traders. The slaves was labor on coffee, rice ,sugar and tobacco plantations. I personally was raised in Guyana which was ruled by Great Britain. We were slaves an had to worked on plantation from sunrise to sunset, beaten harshly an treated live dogs. We were paid little or no money and had no education only the white were allowed to educate their children. We gain our independence on February 23 1966. England was basically the boss for us ,we worked an manufactured the crops and they read it and get the income.

Free coloureds under the British rule in Trinidad

Free coloureds were neither slaves nor whites, they were just free. Most of them were of mixed races ex:( African-European) but some were just blacks who had been freed. In  1802 there were 5275 free coloureds and only 2261 whites. Some of the free coloureds were well off. The British felt threatened by the free coloureds and so implemented laws states author to "put them in their place". It was almost like South Africa under aparthied . Remember these free coloureds were mostly well educated people, ex: doctors, lawyers, planters, etc. However they were being given curfews and if out after nine thirty they had to carry torches, also they had to sit at the back of the church on rough benches. They opposed the laws and it was revoked but that was just in paper[ theory not practicality]. They were still being treated differently and could not get any job[ they were limited to some professions/position], ex: they could not of held a position above a white.

Source of (PBS):
http://books.google.com/books?id=uNrUU360mzsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=trinidad+history&hl=en&ei=2xKVTbfcLKmO0QHaot38Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.