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Post Emancipation systems
Aimed at prolonging the conditions of slavery as long as possible
The various system were known by different names and lasted for differing periods
British colonies: 1834 to 1838
Danish west indies: 1849 to 1879
Dutch west indies: 1863 to 1873
French west indes: 1848 to 1863
Cuba: 1880 to 1886
In some colonies compensation was given to slave owners
British colonies= 20 million pounds
French colonies= 126 million francs
Danish Virgin Islands= 5,500,000 francs about 2 million dollars
Dutch colonies= 16 million florins
Puerto Rico= 35 million pesetas
Many of the major features of the plantation system continued many decades after slavery ended
1. Majority of blacks continued to work and reside on plantations because of limited opportunities outside the plantation system
2. Planters' dominance continued
3. Low economic status of ex-slaves continued
4. The majority of blacks excluded from political and economic power because of *lack of education
*economic qualifications for political participation which meant
*Continuation of substandard conditions in housing
*Unstable family life
*Poor education
*Inadequate health care
After emancipation, some blacks left the plantations and
*Established free village
*Formed independent peasantry
*Migrated to urban areas
*Engaged in interterritorial migration
Causes of post emancipation migration to Caribbean
*The gradual withdrawal of Africans from plantation labor resulted in so called "labor shortage" on plantations
*various ethnic groups from different parts of the world were imported to supplant slave labor
Post-Emancipation migrant group
1. East Indians
2. Chinese
3. Portuguese
4. Other European countries (from england, Germany, and Ireland)
5. Javanese
6. Arabs
7. Non-enslaved Africans
East Indians
500,000 came between 1838 and 1917
Mostly single males
Some came as family group
Most went British Guiana, Trinidad and Suriname but small amount went to other colonies including st. Croix
Chinese
Over 150,000 came mostly from 1850's through the 1870's
Most went to Cuba, British Guiana, and Trinidad
Portuguese
30,000 came from the Madeira Islands went mainly to Guyana before the 1860s
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