![]() ![]() The system was driven by a sense that Haiti’s freedom was precarious and had to be defended continually against foreign and national elite interests. The local system is built around family and community ownership and cultivation of plots of land to produce food for local consumption and national and international markets. ![]() ![]() Sociologist Jean Casimir calls this a “counter-plantation system” - the antithesis of mass-production plantations that exploit workers and grow crops for export. Having carried out a successful anti-slavery revolution in the 1790s and winning independence from France in 1804, the Haitian population created a set of egalitarian and community-oriented social and cultural forms in the countryside. In Haiti, the state has always seemed fundamentally at odds with the people. ![]()
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