Commissioners adopted plantation leasing to generate state revenue
Evidence
Although the commissioners had as a political tactic criticized Rigaud’s plantation regime, they, too, started to rent plantations to private individuals. Understanding the advantages of this policy—revenue and privately driven development—they stipulated that renters had to pay for repairs, and in so doing ultimately profited the state, which maintained official ownership over the plantations. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 711
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- The commissioners’ rhetoric against plantation tyranny hid their own plantation rental policy (similarity 0.89)
- Rigaud’s land-rental policy revived a new form of plantation labor exploitation (similarity 0.81)
- Renting plantations to private owners denied ex-slaves the promised land and revived quasi-slavery (similarity 0.79)