Narratives about indigenous labour in the pearl fisheries of the Caribbean, widely disseminated across the Atlantic world since the sixteenth century by Castilian chroniclers, have significantly shaped historiography. These accounts have reinforced a singular narrative about labour within pearl fisheries that overlooks this work's spatial and temporal changes in sea depths. This article examines and reconstructs the labour practices of workers in the pearl fisheries on the islands of Cubagua, Margarita, and Coche, as well as the coast of Cabo de la Vela and Riohacha, highlighting their temporal and spatial transformations. Additionally, it analyses the coexistence of various forms of coerced labour within this context.

自 16 世纪以来，卡斯蒂利亚编年史家在大西洋世界广泛传播了关于加勒比采珠业土著劳工的叙述，对史学产生了重大影响。这些叙述强化了关于采珠业中劳动的独特叙述，忽视了这项工作在海洋深度方面的空间和时间变化。本文考察和重建了古巴瓜岛、玛格丽塔岛和科什岛以及 Cabo de la Vela 和 Riohacha 海岸采珠业工人的劳动实践，重点介绍了他们的时间和空间转变。此外，它还分析了在此背景下各种形式的强迫劳动的共存。