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On a typical 18th century plantation in the British Caribbean the Africans and the Europeans had a

distinctive fear for each other as suggested by willie 2001.not only the white lived in fear of losing

their life livestock and their family their property but also the black lived in fear for their lives and

their family in brutal punishment .they feared each other for many reasons but only three of those

reason be examined by each race. Three reasons why the black feared the white are: then whites were

equipped with fire _+--\-==] ==-==-==.

The black, women in particular were sexually exploited by7 of the white men and easily bought to

punishment by the whites wives. the slaves were fear of been sold and separated from their family the

white feared the blacks for the following reasons they were small in numbers on the sugar plantation

and slaves served the white house and can easily poisoned them the white also feared of the slaves

culture. the white saw the enslaved African untamed animals they believe that slaves were sneaky and

always planning on ways to escaped the European possessions the whites spent they time ridiculing

the African flowers the white did fear the blacks .there were more enslaves Africans than white living

on the plantation this was so because it was encourage that the women produce often to bring free

slaves although the whites encourage that they were apprehensive of the false that they were out

grown .result in the big population of the enslaved African predicts rebellion against the white

faithfully prepare for such action by building the foundation of their great house high of rock they also

made sure that were stock on gun powder another reason why the white feared the enslaved Africans

was the fact the they can be easily executed by the domestic slaves Domestic slaves were the slaves

who served the great houses the where classified above the other types of slaves shown in figure 1.2

below the whites felt that if they gave the domestic slaves same privilege than the other slaves they

would feel that they were entitled to serve them well the domestic slaves were responsible for cooking

making care of the European children and other daily house chores. They were agitated that that they

would have been poisoned by the domestic slaves. According to willie 2001 the domestic slaves

were always made to prove whole sameness of the food before the white would take part of it most of

it most of the white were terrified of the Africans culture the African beat drums as ways to

communicate to their gods they also done and sing sang to keep their spirit alive in respect that they
will be set free .the white saw culture as strange and their gods were not accepted on the plantation

other practice such as obeah was believe to cause great danger to them and their possession in effort

to diminish their fear of the African culture the sought ways to banish their African ways of living the

although the white save themselves as superior they were still prettified of the Africans. The white

made sure to instill fear in the enslaved Africans mind through oppressive ways the Africans forced

the white were furnished with grand weapons much such as guns also the white had the support of

the soldiers and armies so the Africans were whites to action against the European .further more on

the plantation the African women were afraid of being sexual assault by the white men .after being

sexually assault wellie 2001 indicated that after the African women were brutally punished by the

hand of the jealous wife also the African women feared bearing a child for her master for she knew

that the child would have complication being accepted by both races of the plantation. The enslave

families dread to be pulled apart and transferred or sold to another plantation to cope with their fear

the enslaved Africans kept personal stuff from their loves ones if a relocation was inexorable also

African wife and children feared that the man of the house were relocated because with him the

family will then have little or protective

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