Henry James Ross, identified by local officials as `a native, a
West Indian' and as `an English barrister', was an Anglo-West
Indian, a white Creole. He was born in St Vincent in 1795 or 1797
but spent all of his early adult life in Britain as a barrister. He
arrived in Grenada in 1838 to oversee the transition to wage labour
on Plaisance, a 650-acre cocoa and coffee plantation with which he
had been connected for nearly 20 years. He later took up extended
residence in Grenada initially as an absentee proprietor but
quickly converted himself into a planter, active professional man
and public figure. In this pamphlet - originally published in 1842,
here introduced by Woodville K. Marshall - Ross's report serves as
the only extant report on a sharecropping experiment on a British
Caribbean plantation and thereby supplies pertinent details of how
the scheme worked (and was expected to work) on the ground. The
pamphlet is an argument for the total replacement of wage labour by
sharecropping and identifies the advantages that such a
substitution could bring to all parties and to agricultural
practices. The pamphlet is also important as it may well have
influences British colonial policymakers as well as some planters
and therefore provides a window through which the sharecropping
option and associated land/labour issues, can be examined.
General
Imprint: |
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica
|
Country of origin: |
Jamaica |
Release date: |
October 2006 |
First published: |
September 2000 |
Authors: |
Henry James Ross
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
124 |
ISBN-13: |
978-976-637-226-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Labour economics >
General
|
LSN: |
976-637-226-8 |
Barcode: |
9789766372262 |
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