RT Article
T1 The intersection of colonialism and indentured labour in the Caribbean
JF The Palgrave handbook of Caribbean criminology
SP 443
OP 459
A1 Fergus, Claudius K. 1950-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1931910871
AB Indentured labour was a peculiar invention of English colonisers in the seventeenth century, a pre-cursor to full-blown chattel slavery. When Caribbean plantocracies abandoned slavery in the nineteenth century they returned to indentureship to stabilise and expand the economy and create a barrier to freedmen’s progress. This second phase of indentured labour had the most profound impact on colonial society since the establishment of the sugar revolution. Only four polities did not participate: Puerto Rico, which avoided a sugar revolution; Barbados, which retained a viable white deficiency population and the only two independent states within the Caribbean Sea, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Despite the inherent violence of the system, it was the foundation of the modern plural society of the Caribbean.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 457-459
SN 9783031523779
K1 Intersectionality
K1 Colonialism
K1 Plantocracy
K1 Indentureship
K1 Caribbean