The Plantation System In The Caribbean. The result of this was the virtual elimination of eastern plantation slavery in the The plantation system thrived and expanded through
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Ultimately, sugar production provided one of the original. And the western interior of the island. According to the book mustapha (2009), the plantation system played a dominant role in the economic, social, political and cultural life of the caribbean.
The system emerged in the epoch of the primitive.
Because the economy of the south depended on the cultivation of crops, the need for agricultural labor led to the establishment of slavery.it also created a society sharply divided along class lines. Chapman and hall, 1863), p. Pure plantation economy of slavery plantation economy modified after emancipation plantation economy further modified after 1940 with „industrialization by invitation‟ they ignored the social forces that contributed to change in the region 6. The plantation economy model and the caribbean dennis pantin this article attempts a critical appraisal of the plantation economy model (pem), concentrating on the work of best and levitt 1968, 19751 and, to a lesser extent, of beckford 11972, 19741.
