Sowing the Seeds of an Invisible Presence
The term counter-plantation allowed for a revision of the enslaved and freed laborers who lived under the brutal regimes of enslavement and emancipation.
This unlocked possibilities of how to build a community with methods that were contradictory to the cruelty and excessive production of the plantation. Although the persons living and working on plantations were subject to strict discipline, the plantation allowed for forms of agency, no matter how minor.
The race and class inferiority of black workers within the social order of the plantation fostered the structure and growth of a system of social relations and a belief that places emphasis on unity, equality, and a positive outlook on the multiple cultural forms. Displacement of the West African slaves in the 17th century resulted in alternate notions of community, kinship and domesticity in Barbados.
The term counter-plantation allowed for a revision of the enslaved and freed laborers who lived under the brutal regimes of enslavement and emancipation.
This unlocked possibilities of how to build a community with methods that were contradictory to the cruelty and excessive production of the plantation. Although the persons living and working on plantations were subject to strict discipline, the plantation allowed for forms of agency, no matter how minor.
The race and class inferiority of black workers within the social order of the plantation fostered the structure and growth of a system of social relations and a belief that places emphasis on unity, equality, and a positive outlook on the multiple cultural forms. Displacement of the West African slaves in the 17th century resulted in alternate notions of community, kinship and domesticity in Barbados.