Most Seychellois had worked on white-owned estates…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
After the abolition of slavery, they had become agricultural wage laborers, sharecroppers, fishers, or artisans, settling as squatters where they please.
Labor-intensive field crops rapidly give way to crops that require relatively little labor, including copra, cinnamon, and vanilla.
Only those industries related to processing the cash crops or exploiting natural resources develop.
As a result, the increasing population has quickly come to depend on imports for most basic necessities, including food and manufactured goods.
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East Africa
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