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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Published in:Caravelle (1988) 2017-12, Vol.109 (109), p.15-29
Main Author: Tulet, Jean-Christian
Format: Article
Language:eng ; spa
Subjects:
Agricultural production
Caribbean
Paradigm
Slavery
Sugar
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1147-6753
2272-9828
DOI:10.4000/caravelle.2414