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=====Slavery on Torlen===== | =====Slavery on Torlen===== | ||
It is estimated that 138,000 slaves worked on Torlen between [[1593]]-[[1858]]. They were predominantly from modern [[Battganuur]], [[Kandara]], and [[Oyashima]]. | It is estimated that 138,000 slaves worked on Torlen between [[1593]]-[[1858]]. They were predominantly from modern [[Battganuur]], [[Kandara]], and [[Oyashima]]. Most of these slaves worked in the latifundia, primarily growing and harvesting grapefruit. These slaves were from diverse backgrounds, predominantly [[Battganuur]]i, [[Kandara|Kandi, Santasi]], [[Oyashima|Matsutorine, and Danehonger]] ethnicities. They were forced to interbreed to blur cultural lines and keep there from being a common cultural bond that would have resulted in rebellion. There were still two sizeable rebellions in [[1638]] and in [[1784]] but both of them were suppressed violently. | ||
The slaves were classified into 4 categories: field slaves, house slaves, store slaves, and coolies. | |||
*Field slaves ([[Burgoignesc language|Burg]]: ''escalve des champs'') were by far the most numerous slaves on Torlen throughout the Age of Sail and were predominantly male. Most of them came from the [[Barbary Straits colony]] and [[Kandara#"Western"_contact_(16th_century)|Cote d'Or]]. | |||
They were treated the harshest of all of the slaves and were forbidden from learning to read or write. | |||
*House slaves ([[Burgoignesc language|Burg]]: ''escalve des maisons'') were the most privileged of the slaves, they were treated the best of the slaves on Torlen and were sometimes given limited educations including learning to read and write. They were predominantly female, many of them were from the [[Oyashima|Far East Colony]] and [[Cheun#Early_Modern_Period|Ayermer colony]]. | |||
*Store slaves ([[Burgoignesc language|Burg]]: ''escalve des magazines'') were slaves who worked in markets and shops, primarily in [[New Torleans]]. They were often those who had a proficiency for mathematics or has received some form of education in their homeland. They were not particularly one gender or another, nor were they particularly over-representative of one particular culture. | |||
*Coolies ([[Burgoignesc language|Burg]]: ''qulies'') were slaves who were general laborers not related to field work. Many of them pulled {{wp|Rickshaw#Origin|vinaigrettes}} or were couriers or porters. There was even one dockyard that used qulies as stevedores, but there were too many opportunities to escape and they switched back to paid labor. | |||
=====Institutions on Torlen in the Age of Sail===== | |||
There was an abundance of money in Torlen during the Age of Sail and the population was quick to spend it. While some Protestants who had been high ranking nobles prior to the [[Great Confessional War]] and spent great sums to bring horticultural scholars from the conquered territories in [[Audonia]], many without a learned background, as well as plenty of those who did, focused less on improving their methodology and more on maximizing their output in the short-term. These latifundia eventually failed from nutrient stripping and the patroons had to sell their patroonship to recoup their debts. This created a class divide on the island which became more and more visible by the 1650s. As a result many of the middling patroons, seeking to save their lands, established a Agricultural Institute in [[1658]], what is today the Torlen Institute of Technology, but was then called the "Fraternal Benefit Order of Patroons, Gentlemen, and Farmers" ([[Burgoignesc language|Burg]]: ''Ordre de bienfaisance fraternelle des proprietaires, des gens de mejans, et des fermiers'') to learn how to farm more efficiently, and to support farmers who had lost their crop. | |||
==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||