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Identifier: nouvellegograp17recl (find matches)
Title: Nouvelle géographie universelle : la terre et les hommes
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Paris : Hachette et cie.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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es se faisaient pour subvenir au luxe de quelques-uns ; actuellement les habitants travaillent le sol principalement pour suffire;i la consommation locale, et à cet égard ils ont parfaitement réussi : lemaïs, les ignames, les bananes et autres fruits, surtout les oranges, telles sontles principales récoltes. Pour alimenter un petit commerce dexportationils cultivent aussi le tabac, le gingembre, le cafîer, et se livrent à lapi-culture. Le chinchona est introduit depuis lannée 1868 dans les Mon-tagnes Bleues et les nègres en surveillent les forêts naissantes4; larbusteà thé prospère dans le même district. Des noirs se mettent à planter lacanne à sucre pour leur propre compte, et tel domaine dautrefois est rem-placé par trente petits enclos ayant chacun son moulin en bois. Dautres 1 Jerolim von Benko, ouvrage cité. 2 Salles, Autour de la mer des Antilles. 5 Coulis hindous de la Jamaïque en 1888 : 15 000. 4 Production de lécorcede chinchona en 1888 : 2700 kilogrammes.
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NOIRS DE LA JAMAÏQUE. 721 cultivateurs, plus entreprenants, se sont associés pour acheter des machinescoûteuses et accroître ainsi leur production ou améliorer leurs denrées1.Le bien-être est général dans la population indigène, qui saccroît enmoyenne de 8000 personnes par année; en 1888, laugmentation a dépassédix mille 2. Lexemple de la Jamaïque est donc mal choisi par les écono-mistes qui considèrent la diminution du commerce extérieur comme unepreuve de décadence. Lile est devenue un centre de civilisation, surtoutpour le littoral de lAmérique Centrale, du Yucatan au Darien : ce sontdes émigrants jamaïcains qui développent le commerce, la culture etlindustrie dans ces contrées. A cet égard, la Jamaïque est de beaucoupcelle des Antilles qui exerce la plus heureuse influence pour le progrèsgénéral des populations américaines. Mais, quoique libérés du travail forcé de lusine, les nègres jamaïcainsnont point acquis lindépendance politique ni légali

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  • bookyear:1876
  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Reclus__Elis__e__1830_1905
  • booksubject:Geography
  • bookpublisher:Paris___Hachette_et_cie_
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Connecticut_Libraries
  • booksponsor:LYRASIS_members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:736
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