Land-grabbing after Emancipation - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
DR RITA PEMBERTON AFTER EMANCIPATION, many plantations in the British Caribbean faced challenges related to increased competition on the sugar market, falling prices, labour problems, increases in freight, duties, taxes and production costs and shortage of credit. Concern about the growing number of insolvent estates caused the British Parliament to pass a series of laws,
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