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Alfred Rondier.
Santa Cruz: Scenes and Incidents of the Recent Insurrection and Incediarism
of the Negroes of the Island.
New York: Frank Leslie, 1878.
After emancipation in 1848, former slaves who worked on plantations received
a fixed wage set by a Labor Act. That act was repealed in 1878, triggering
a riot on St. Croix.
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