Labor, Slavery, Caste: Spanish Colonial System Practice Test

Racialized slavery and Atlantic commerce made Africans purchasable property in colonial law, enabling planters to compel lifelong labor and replace workers.

Africans were targeted because the Inca Empire demanded it, controlling Spain through tribute and appointing African overseers in Madrid.

Africans were targeted due to twentieth-century guest-worker programs and passport controls that regulated global labor migration after 1950.

Africans were targeted because Spain had no ships, so Africans migrated voluntarily across land bridges to the Caribbean for seasonal work.

Africans were targeted because Spanish law required all Africans to be paid high wages and given land, making plantations more humane and profitable.