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JARLARNIE SEALES
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CARIBBEAN CIV
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After slavery was abolished the planters needed to find some others means of labor to work on the plantations so,  they were forced to rehire some of the free slaves and some whites to work on the plantations.
Caribbean Civ provides everyone with opportunity to experience what the caribbean stands for, the struggles which were faced by the indigenous people people. These struggles give a sense of identity to the caribbean peopl and a sense of togetherness.

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In this Caribbean Civilisation course i learnt a lot about the demographic background of the entire Caribbean. Through this course i was able to learn about slavery and indigenous groups which settled in the caribbean. The Africans were of the first of the groups to settle in the caribbean and they worked on the sugar cane plantations in the early 1800's. The next to arrive was the indians , the chinesse and the white waged workers.
This course also gave me a big in sight on the struggles which these slaves faced on the plantations and the injustice which they faced. These slaves weren't allowed to practice their own culture other wise the would have been beaten or punished severely. I also learnt about the history of chatel slavery, the ways in which the slaves revolted against there owners on the plantation.

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Women were discriminated from jobs because society believed  that they belonged in the household. There was a turn in tables where the males were found to be the ones looking after homes as to the women. The women began to prove there worthiness and proved that they can do just as much as males in the field.
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Modern Gender Roles: Family, Education and Work Place)

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Modern Gender Roles: Family, Education and Work Place)

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As the time passed families shifted from being Patriarchal to Matrifocal where the male is no longer the head of the family and all of the authority is headed by the woman and there isnt any husband present in this type of family (Mustapha, Sociology For Caribbean Students page 137.)
Males were the ones who were given the opportunity to attend schools and have a chance of obtaining an education where as women were seen as the ones who were to prepare for marriage, look after the household and raise their offspring. As time passed by women began to brake away from the patriarchal society and began to develop a sense of independence. They began to go to school and women were seen to do better than males and more likely to succeed.Males were seen as the ones to become scientist and doctors but the roles switched. Women are the ones becoming doctors and other professions.

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This video gives an illustration of how the gender roles have shifted over the pas centuries.

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•Females on the estate were placed in charge of secondary positions on the estate (Campbell 2012, Beyond Massa page 77).

•They performed lighter task on the field as it was seen as saving their fertility.

•Women were seen as more fertile than men and saving their fertility in order to have offspring.

•The estate managers back then would use the women fertilities as a means of increasing the production on the estate.

•Therefore women were given the little task.

•Women were also brought into the plantations to work as housekeepers and provide meals, also owners saw the idea that they can economically benefit by promoting the family and females through slavery (Maria J. De La Torre 2013).
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•In the 18th  century slaves were brought in from West Africa to work on the plantations.

•Thousands of slaves came on the ships which traveled at sea.

•A lot of these slaves didn’t make it due to length of travel and due to condition of the ship.

•On the plantations these slave were made to endure hardship on the fields with ridiculous levels of hard work.

•Majority of the field activities were done by the men as seen in the photo above.

•Men were seen as big and strong and can withstand any hardship.

Women were seen as soft and weak and unable to cope with the difficulties which the men faced.
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•For this portfolio the topic which I have chosen to do for this portfolio is Gender Roles in society.

•Gender roles in society is a topic that holds a very good interest towards society because it gives a brief historical background of the roles which both men and women played in society.

•The roles of both men and women changed over the years where men were seen as predominantly as the ones who partake in more of the on field activities were women we viewed differently.

•Moving into the 1900’s to the 20th century there started to have a change in the roles of both men and women.

•Women were discriminated in the work place and social mobility rarely exist with women in the early centuries.

•Women were seen  as the ones who would stay at home and look after the household.

In this portfolio gender roles would be briefly detailed from the days of slavery to modernistic society and how much these roles have changed over the years.