The Establishment of the Peasantry 1838-1900

The two most popular occupations for ex-slaves after emancipation were

• Small scale agriculture and retail trading

• Small scale agriculture and handicraft

• retail trading and fishing

• retail trading and handicraft

Under the metayage system, employers were expected to

• pay their labourers a minimum wage

• receive a share of the crop produced by their tenants

• sell their portion of the crop to their labourers

• provide housing and wages for their tenants

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the establishment of the peasantry?

• expansion of small-scale farming

• mechanization of the sugar industry

• introduction of immigration labour

• reduction in sugar prices

Which of the following BEST defines a West Indian peasant proprietor?

• someone who works for very low wages

• someone who owns and cultivates at least two acres of land

• someone who works on a large farm

• someone who sells ground provisions in the market

There were more free villages in Jamaica than there were in Barbados because

• in Jamaica there was more land available

• in Barbados the ex-slaves did not want to leave the plantations

• the Jamaican planters encouraged their ex-slaves to set up free villages

• the Jamaican ex--slaves had more money to buy land than the ex-slaves in Barbados

Which of the following was NOT a means by which ex-slaves required land after emancipation?

• buying old estate lands

• receiving land from the British government

• renting estate lands

• squatting on Crown land

Which of the following BEST explains why there were so few 'free villages' in Antigua?

• There was a large supply of ex-slaves in Antigua

• The Antiguan ex-slaves were not required to serve an apprenticeship period

• There was very little land available in Antigua

• Wages for plantation labour in Antigua were extremely high

Which religious denomination gave the most assistance to free villages immediately after emanicpation?

• Baptist

• Anglicans

• Catholics

• Presbyterians

Which of the following was NOT a result of the development of the peasantry in the British Caribbean after 1838?

• A growing sense of independence among ex-slaves

• legalization of the practice of obeah

• diversification of the economy

• greater expansion of the non-conformist churches

Which of the following are reasons why several plantation owners sold their plantations immediately after emancipation?

I. Their plantation were unprofitable

II. There was a scarcity of labourers

II. They were given additional compensation

• A. I and II only

• B. II and III only

• C. I and III only

• I, II and III