The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir Of Life On A Colonial Rubber Plantation

When the slaves would go to bed they would sleep on straws or old rags which didn’t provide any warmth (4). The plantation owners provide the clothes for the slaves when they got to the plantation. Unfortunately, the clothes were really bad material and didn’t fit properly (4). Slaves were expected to work morning to night in the cotton fields. During harvest season, most of the slaves would work a 18 hour day (10).

Although Ho Chi Minh and his policies could be characterized as communist, the people of Vietnam were able to connect with him and his aspirations of a independent

The more slaves the more sugar that could be produced was the idea that most plantation owners had. These slaves were owned by wealthy British men. The rich men had enough money to buy lots of slaves and produce lots of sugar. This brings back the main idea because none of the sugar could have been produced without any of the labor. Labor is the beginning to this story of the Sugar Trade and without that chapter, it would be incomplete.

Slaves were needed to help develop the America’s economy by harvesting cotton because industrial companies need it for profit. The overabundance of cotton later caused the price of cotton to decrease while the cost of finished goods that used cotton increased. Both slavery and industry coincided heavily together. As the cost of cotton decreased the need for slaves, to compensate for loss of income, increased. Slaves had to work harder to meet higher financial demands of their masters because tariffs that were supposed to help farmers ended up hurting them.

The wealthy were in need of cheap labor, and with the amount of blacks being sentenced, most jails still functioning were overflowing with them. Leasing was designed for black convicts, and laws passed allowed towns and independent men to lease them for a price. They black convicts were put to work building railroads, levees or doing work for private owners. The convicts did work that free labor could not. Conditions were horrible and they were forced to work knee deep in muck, in malaria-ridden swamps, and to dynamite tunnels.

'Sharecropping ', a new agricultural system, made plantation owners divide their properties to allow both black and white people to work the

This historical analysis will define the imperial impact of French colonialism and the influence of Chinese communism and on the Vietnamese people in the pre-WWII era. The important role of China in the development of Vietnam’s history is crucial to understand the ways in which foreign colonists could not sustain dominance over these peoples. In the past, Northern Vietnam had been a part of China, which defines the close relationship that these people had with a larger and more powerful empire in this region of the world. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the role of China’s own nationalist movements had an impact on Vietnam’s own struggles in French-Indochina. The early focus on “nationalism” in China was going against western

The plantations were often busy so slaveholders relied on overseers to supervise the slaves quality of work in the fields and help overlook the cultivation of crops. Outside the plantations and inside the household, operations were run differently. Some slaveholders hired personal managers for their households while others just relied on mistresses to oversee and handle household affairs. Slaveholder’s were infatuated with becoming the best cotton manufacturer as well as becoming skilled producers of sugar and rice. Eager for success, they put their slaves to hard work on the plantations; clearing substantial amounts of forest and hoeing fields for harvest.

They concluded that the French would have to win their freedom back by violence rather than modern education and reforms. This led to Duong Thieu Chi’s job becoming more difficult because he had to be under strict orders to suppress any communist and nationalist support by increasing vigilance even if he supported it internally. He was held responsible for anti-French activities in his territory (Elliot, p.

Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu Dinh Dinh Diem and His Brother were assassinated in Cho Lon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Britannica). The U.S wanted to kill Ngo Dinh Diem because they wanted to maintain the southern Vietnamese government (History.com Staff). The Southern Vietnamese government was unstable during the Vietnam War because Northern Vietnam was constantly trying to turn them Communist. The U.S also wanted to kill him because He was killing Buddhist. Ngo Dinh Diem’s family believed that people were becoming Buddhist because of the Communist (Kross), so he would kill everyone that had signs of being Communist.

Slaves cut down all stalks of sugar which was one of the hardest jobs on the plantation (Document 8A). Since there was so much work to do on a plantation a 500 acre plantation could have a minimum of 300 slaves working long painful days (Document 6A). Slaves were put through tons of work and since they were slaves they were not paid and the only people that were paid were overseers (Document 7A). Slaves were highly common on plantations and did the hardest and the majority of the jobs

This appeared to be their way of life since the community did not offer any employment opportunities after the plantations were closed. People started to engage in criminal activities which lead to their incarceration. In Lalee’s household alone, three men were in jail. Redman and Granny’s fathers were serving time and Lalee’ son was in and out of jail. They often talked about the criminal justice system because their love ones were within that system.

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