PLANTATION DIVISION AND PLOT ALLOCATION TO SLAVES

Plantation Division and Plot Allocation to Slaves

Introduction

The abolition of slavery and the end of apprenticeship was not a revolutionary transformation, but only a change in the basis of the exploitation of labor was quite obvious. According to the Brazilian sociologist Florestan Fernandes, in Brazil, nigger has remained almost at the edge of this revolution; it was negatively selected in order to be content with what has now become known as" nigger work.”Unstable or difficult jobs, and unhappy as they were being underpaid.

After their release in the United States, blacks who had migrated to the north was implicated in the ghetto, where they were confined to dirty, unskilled, poorly paid and unstable jobs (Blassingame 2002). Today, blacks are second class citizens and some successes before gradually disappearing.

Plantocracy used not only for the racist ideology of enslavement and exploitation. He also resorted to methods that were designed to undermine the very basis of emancipation and "divide and conquer.

Immigrants were brought from Europe and mainly from Asia, not only to work for less than that required to release former slaves, but also create a force of surplus labor in and around the sugar estates. It was suggested that it is the East India under the apprenticeship, which fixes the level of wages, rather than the free working.

The flow of immigrants, in the context of the lack of alternative employment, brought pressure to work and therefore have no incentive to improve the estates. By 1884 the supply of "free" labor "in such abundance that the market rate has fallen below the rate for indentured immigrants." (Knight 2006) 20 And what seemed more unpleasant for them, as a rule, customs duties and taxes exports to finance the costs of immigration, as well as medical services in the estates department of immigration and the recruiting office in Kolkata.Denial Of Land to Freed Ex-Slaves

At the same time, Afro-Guyanese were subjected to other restrictions and difficulties. Planters adopted a deliberate policy of denial of land freed former slaves. People's Association noted that the Land Code of 1839 not only set a high price for the land, but stipulates that only less than 100 acres of Crown land may be acquired. And only 14 January 1890 that the Crown Lands, which cost $ 10 per acre, were reduced to $ 1(Blassingame 2002). Even if the settlements, which can be opened, and the support ...