Adjustments to Emancipation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20077917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J R Ward (0000-0003-3726-9217, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Pages | 31-45 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Poverty and Progress in the Caribbean, 1800–1960 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-07395-5_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2475592027 |
| ISBN | 9781349073955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Slavery was ended throughout the Caribbean during the nineteenth century, at different times in the different territories.4 In Haiti and the Dominican Republic the change was achieved by local action; otherwise it was managed more or less by the colonial power, usually with some compensation to former slave owners by the use of monetary payments and periods of regulated labour, such as ‘apprenticeship’ in the British West Indies (1834–8), or the patronato in Cuba (1880–6) [58: 129–61; 69]. As the main function of slavery had been to support sugar planting, the most convenient measure of the results of emancipation is the subsequent history of sugar production, and from the information on this point summarised in Table III it will be seen that there were considerable local variations. In Haiti sugar planting was soon virtually eliminated; elsewhere there was a more gradual but persistent decline, or a recovery (sometimes only temporary) after early post-emancipation difficulties, while in a few cases output grew without serious interruption
Apprenticeship · Archaeology · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Emancipation · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sugar · Sugar production · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law
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Economic Adjustments to Emancipation in the United States and British West Indies
Systems of Domination after Slavery
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 1989 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |