Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Learning Objectives
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Caribbean Historiography on
Estate Labour 1838 - 1848
General consensus among the writers
William A. Green, William Sewell, Walter Rodney, Swithin
Wilmot, W. K. Marshall, Gisela Eisner
Waged rather than free labour
Task or job work rather than day work
Part time and capricious rather than steady, disciplined, full
time and reliable work
Free rather than coerced labour
Non resident rather than resident labourers
The Share System/ Metayage
Guiana
1842
2943
Barbados
18404 - 1859
From 1,110 to
3,537
2 hectares each
St Vincent
1838 1857
8,209
5,000 hectares
Antigua
1833 - 1858
67 free villages
with 15,644
inhabitants
Immigrant Workers
British Guiana
1838 -
250,000
Trinidad
1845 -
145,000
Jamaica
1840s
21,500
St Vincent
1840s
1,820
St Lucia
1840s
1,550
Historiography on Indentured
Immigration to the Caribbean
Education
Carl Campbell has given more scholarly attention to the history of mass or popular
education in the Caribbean than anyone else
See also Shirley Gordon
Observations
The British Government was parsimonious in supporting mass education in the region
More attention was given to quantity than to quality education
Education was to serve more as a social police force than a lever for upward mobility
The free people embraced education as an escape from agricultural or manual labour
By 1846 when funding was the responsibility of the local legislatures, very little was
done to advance public education since the planter class viewed education as a threat
to the plantation
Used as an agent of the political process