La fin de l’empire du sucre dans les îles de la Caraïbe

After having dominated the world market, sugar production of most of the Caribbean countries now plays a rather minor role. This decline becomes quite apparent during the second half of the 20th century, but its deep causes go back to the abolition of slavery from which it never recovered. If the en...

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Main Author: Jean-Christian Tulet
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Language:Spanish
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2017-12-01
Series:Caravelle
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2414
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description After having dominated the world market, sugar production of most of the Caribbean countries now plays a rather minor role. This decline becomes quite apparent during the second half of the 20th century, but its deep causes go back to the abolition of slavery from which it never recovered. If the end of the production with slaves, of this “sugar paradigm”, ended with the hegemony of the sugar cane’s culture, it doesn’t mean that the social and economic consequences that survive until today have been errased. One consequence might be the lack of interest about working the land, a lack of interest still observed today according to some authors, which is probably due to the difficulty of being able to find acces to this same land. In any case, a very specific world continues to exist, a “black America”, deeply marked by the after-effects of slavery, also characterised by very rich social and cultural expressions.
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La fin de l’empire du sucre dans les îles de la Caraïbe
Caravelle
Agricultural production
Paradigm
Sugar
Slavery
Caribbean
title La fin de l’empire du sucre dans les îles de la Caraïbe
title_full La fin de l’empire du sucre dans les îles de la Caraïbe
title_fullStr La fin de l’empire du sucre dans les îles de la Caraïbe
title_full_unstemmed La fin de l’empire du sucre dans les îles de la Caraïbe
title_short La fin de l’empire du sucre dans les îles de la Caraïbe
title_sort la fin de l empire du sucre dans les iles de la caraibe
topic Agricultural production
Paradigm
Sugar
Slavery
Caribbean
url https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2414
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