Slavery in the British and French Caribbean

In the British and French Caribbean, slavery was a system where people were treated like property and forced to work without pay or certain rights. In the British Caribbean, people were brought from Kings and West Africa, and in the French Caribbean, people were brought from the African countries of Senegal, the Gambia, and Benin. The people were taken by ship, and many died during the trip. The people who did survive the journey were put to work on sugar plantations, growing sugar cane and doing other hard labor. Slaves were not allowed to own property, go to school, or marry, and were often separated from each other and punished for disobeying their masters. Slavery was finally abolished in the mid-1800s, and most people who were enslaved were freed.