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Article: Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Plantation colonies have been the subject of intense historical interest for many years. The literature on these societies and economies is extensive, and the attendant scholarship has frequently been informative and insightful. However, even a cursory survey of the relevant historiography quickly reveals that this body of scholarship has also tended to focus upon the classic slave plantation colonies of the New World to the exclusion of the Indian, Chinese, and other indentured laborers who either replaced slaves in the cane fields or helped to establish new plantation economies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific during the mid- and late nineteenth century. The most obvious ...