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    This document summarizes the plantation system that existed in the Caribbean from 1640 to 1876. Large farms of up to 5000 acres grew sugar as a monocrop for export. Enslaved people from Africa were forced into labor on these plantations, living in huts on the periphery of the property. The plantations were self-sufficient units that grew their own food to reduce costs and give enslaved people supplemental food. This plantation system relied on slavery and exploited enslaved Africans for hundreds of years.

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    This document summarizes the plantation system that existed in the Caribbean from 1640 to 1876. Large farms of up to 5000 acres grew sugar as a monocrop for export. Enslaved people from Africa were forced into labor on these plantations, living in huts on the periphery of the property. The plantations were self-sufficient units that grew their own food to reduce costs and give enslaved people supplemental food. This plantation system relied on slavery and exploited enslaved Africans for hundreds of years.

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    This document summarizes the plantation system that existed in the Caribbean from 1640 to 1876. Large farms of up to 5000 acres grew sugar as a monocrop for export. Enslaved people from Africa were forced into labor on these plantations, living in huts on the periphery of the property. The plantations were self-sufficient units that grew their own food to reduce costs and give enslaved people supplemental food. This plantation system relied on slavery and exploited enslaved Africans for hundreds of years.

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    Plantation system 1640 – 1876

    In the1640’s, West Indian tobacco was out competed by Virginian farms which caused the bankruptcy.
    At this time the Dutch were expelled from Brazil and sailed up to the Caribbean to introduce sugar
    and revolutionize the Caribbean into the Sugar Revolution. This saw the birth of the plantation:

     Large 5000 acre farms for sugar for exports.


     Outlying fields needed for food production as ground provisions, vegetables to save money.
    This was also to occupy slave in free time and reduce the food import bill.
     Land was also used for cattle pasture and sheds, firewood, and construction.
     A Great House reinforced for the planter and family on a slope
     Huts for the white Attorney and the Agent
     The sugar crusher, the boiler, refinery, mills
     Huts for the enslaved which were built on the periphery
     Hospital, and jail
     Sugar as a MONOCROP

    This European system of production saw the bringing in of different ethnic groups to live and labour
    for the Europeans, with everything in favour of the Europeans. They looked to Africa for free labour
    in the fields of sugar cane and slavery became a trade in black gold with millions of Africans forcibly
    transported across the Atlantic. For hundreds of years, Africans would be brought in to be
    dehumanized, treated as chattel dependent on the few whites for meager food, clothing and shelter.

    It was a self- sufficient unit maximizing its profits. To save the estate money they grew ground
    provisions and vegetables allowing slaves to grow food to reduce the food import bill. This may be
    seen as resistance too, with the slave supplementing his diet (by growing his own food), to escape the
    from the sub-standard meals of the estates, like breakfast, sometimes given only after the enslaved
    had worked a 4 hour shift from 4.a.m. to 8 a.m. so it may be seen as a slave eating what he wanted
    possibly even before the 8.a.m. time.

    Middle class Whites disappeared from the landscape as there were no jobs for them. There therefore
    remained a small White elite and a mass of Black enslaved on cotton, sugar, cocoa, coffee plantations
    and in Belize, logwood and mahogany. It was said that these were the most miserable of all slaves,
    left desolate and isolated for months in the rainforests in search of the trees.

    The Rs of the plantation were:

     Racism
     Re-socialization
     Resistance and revolt
     Resilience

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