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petit atelier violence esclavage enfants métissageSujets proches
French Antilles Antilles françaises French West Indies Antilles, French Violent behavior Cane sugar Employment of children Children--EmploymentCiter ce document
Caroline Oudin-Bastide, « Child labor in the slave society of the French West Indies (1780-1848) », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, ID : 10670/1.ol2v7u
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In the slave-holding islands of the French West Indies - where reproduction by the slave trade was preferred to the natural growth of the slave population, and where sugar production, little conducive to child labor, dominated economic activity – children made up only a small portion of the labor force. While most of them, to the best of their limited strength, contributed to sugar production as part of the collective workers active on the plantation, others were attached to the service of one or more members of the master’s family as domestic servants. These differences in status put child slaves in a position to be subjected to various forms of the psychological and/or physical violence inherent in the slave system.