often women and very nearly always Bozal. They were rarely able to achieve manumission andthe conditions in which they worked were the worst of the plantation economy. Thought theywere able to have a social life as the whites really did not care what they did with their owntime, they were the most likely to resist their conditions. This is done in a variety of ways whichwill be discussed later. There was a fairly healthy community life amongst plantation slaves. They spent timetogether, had cultural activities and because of the near equal ratio of men to women were ableto marry and raise families. The slave population was fully 80-90% of the overall population inthese regions as they did all the work and there were no towns in the area where whites andIndians went for jobs. Cities were a third environment that utilized slaves. These slaves, however, tended to bemade from the Criollo group. An exception was the slaves taken right off the ships by whiteartisans who taught them to be smiths and coopers and the like. These trades were then passeddown to the slave children and to their children after them. Europeans immigrated to LatinAmerica in far fewer numbers than in the U.S. and as a result otherwise menial jobs held bywhite lower classes there were held by free blacks and slaves working toward manumission.Where you might find an Irish maid on the Main Line in Philadelphia, you would find a black, ormulatto in Latin America. This helped in keeping the racial prejudice at bay in Latin America asit served no purpose to create the perception that blacks were an inferior race. City slaves enjoyed a good amount of freedom to associate and they took advantage of itto form societies and groups that worked to systematically manumit slaves. Resistance to enslavement came in a variety of forms and much went into whether aslave would resist or not. It was clear that all out revolt would not have any lasting affect.Therefore resistance...
