Presentation

Question 1

After emancipation (3)

Answer 1

-Most of the former slaves encountered various difficulties and challenges

• but still engaged in subsistence farming, similar to their practices during slavery.

-Additionally, they often turned to timber camps for extra income.

Question 2

Squatters (4)

Answer 2

• Creole villages were located near mahogany works. (Backlanding, Rock Dondo, Free Town, Lime Walk and Mullins River)

-Timber companies allowed “peasants” to live on their land as squatters for a ready pool of labor and food for the camp workers.

-Yucatecan refugees joined these villages, becoming part of the local community.

-These “peasants” were connected to the market economy (wage earners, consumers of imported items or sellers of surplus produce”.

Question 3

Challenges for many refugees (4)

Answer 3

-Some peasants became small sugar and banana planters, but faced challenges due to limited access to capital and land.

-Most land was privately owned by large firms, which preferred offering annual leases.

-Many refugees were unable to own land because they were not British subjects, a restriction that lasted until 1894.

-Only wealthy Yucatecos qualified for naturalization, allowing them to become significant landowners.

Question 4

Labor-tenancy & squatters (2)

Answer 4

Many Mestizo and Maya peasants entered labor-tenancy agreements with landlords, allowing them to cultivate crops in exchange for their labor at set times.

Others chose to become squatters, and despite the introduction of an anti-squatter law in 1862, the practice persisted

Question 5

Land (3)

Answer 5

The mainly Maya villages, such as Achiote, Corozalito, YokCric, and Buena Vista, were on land owned by the British Honduras Company.

The Maya paid around $5 US a year to rent about ten acres of milpa land.

People in these larger villages (San Estevan, Guinea Grass and August Pine Ridge) worked in various jobs, including timber extraction and sugarcane farming.

Question 6

Squatting

Answer 6

the action of occupying an unoccupied area of land

Question 7

naturalization

Answer 7

the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.