The Black Slaves(wk9)

During 1550-1792 the black slaves began to enter Nueva Granada, they were customized to do all kinds of works: miner, agriculture, fishing, and domestic works.
The conditions for the slaves life, was very hard, they didn’t live in big houses, they had to share with other families and other persons. They also had to join the church, so they became very religious. The houses were they life where very a parted from the cities, and they had to be very honest with the work, because they weren’t architects and they never had classes or any experience. The houses had to have a very good space because in only one house had to life like 45 persons or more.


The slaves had another problem, they were exposed to any kind of sickness, this was a problem for them, because the people that buy them for be slaves only wanted people without any kind of sickness. The 28% of the negroes had viruses such as: craziness, blind, Leper and Gallic.
They get sick, because of the things they eat and also because all the problems and traumas that they develop being slaves. This phrase of the book “Imagenes de Su Diversidad pg 98”: “ invalidos (eran) calificados asi por sufrir afecciones respiratorias y traumas fisicos derivados del coto y otros males”. This show us how were the black slaves.


So the life for them was very hard and dangerous, this was so cruel with them, that if the Spaniards soldiers wanted something like a house or food they will look for a slave and take all what belong to him, so this shows very clear how was the life for the slaves in Nueva Granada during this years.