Emancipation of the slaves had provided the…

1852 CE to 1863 CE

Emancipation of the slaves had provided the catalyst for the rise of an energetic, dynamic peasantry throughout the Caribbean.

A large proportion of the ex-slaves have settled in free villages, often forming cooperatives to buy bankrupt or abandoned sugar estates.

Where they lacked the capital, they simply squatted on vacant lands and continued the cultivation of many of the food crops that the planters and the colonial government had exported during the days of slavery.

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