Coerced Labor in the Americas, c. 1450-1900

In the period c. 1450 to c. 1900, European empires in the Americas built their economies on the labor of Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans and, later, migrants from Asia, and the forms of that labor shifted as populations, economies and laws changed.

Evaluate the extent to which systems of coerced labor in the Americas changed in the period c. 1450 to c. 1900.

Your response may focus on any system(s) of coerced labor in the Americas during the period c. 1450 to c. 1900. You are not expected to address the entire time period in your response.