SLAVERY AND THE ASCENSION OF CAMPESINATES

Abstract

The rise of Caribbean peasantries after slavery happened at different times in different colonies, marked everywhere by the planters’ struggle to cut off the freed people from any productive forces. The paper discusses several colonies to document how in each case the struggle between planters and peasants ensued, and how planters retained the political power that would have decisively changed the outcome.

Keywords

• Peasantry
• Slavery
• Caribbean