Clem Seecharan
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
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Well, there was a very long history of that.
And some scholars have referred to it as the sugar slave plantation complex.
Certainly in the Caribbean, the sugar industry with slave labor was the dominant factor in the economic development of the Caribbean islands.
So it was crucial.
In fact, when you think of sugar,
Sugar.
In the Caribbean, you think of sugar and slavery.
And very often the expression bitter sugar crops up because I think it summarizes the experience under slavery as well as...
To an extent, certainly in the early stages of indentureship, which came after the enslavement of Africans.
It varied, Misha.
In some islands...
Like Antigua, for instance, where the possibility of acquiring land was virtually impossible.
So very difficult indeed.
You didn't even have the so-called apprenticeship system, which existed on other islands or in other colonies in the Caribbean.
because the planters knew that the freed people, the former slaves, the former enslaved, had very few options, very few alternatives, so that their labour was still accessible to the planters.
But in places like Trinidad and British Guyana and Suriname in the southern Caribbean, there was a considerable amount of unoccupied land, land that did not belong to the plantations or land that was not used by the plantations.
And in those places, the freed people had options to acquire land.
as it did in British Guyana, as well as in Trinidad.
And it was to those places where people had options and therefore were inclined to leave the plantations after emancipation.
It is to those places where that vacuum was left.
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