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SLAVERY IN BELIZE Slavery was a system in which human beings were owned and forced to work by their masters. In Belize, the earliest historical reference of this is in 1724 from a Spanish Missionary. A century later, slavery was still present in Belize and the total slave population increased by about 2,300. Lacking indigenous laborers, British settlers in Belize had to purchase enslaved Africans to work. The purchasing of these slaves was known as slave trade. This was done mostly by orders, which were given to the captain of a ship taking logwood. Most of the slaves that were brought to Belize were from the West Indies, through the markets of Jamaica, but a few were also brought directly from Africa or Untied States. Once they arrived in Belize, they immediately became the property of the British settlers. Slaves were mainly forestry workers used to cut logwood and mahogany. The...

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