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Viewing articles tagged 'plantations'
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Rubber
Coffee is the crop most people associate with the highlands, and we write about it in Land taken for coffee. Rubber is the older story. It came with the French, it was worked by people who died in large numbers doing it, and in our own time it has taken highland land in Vietnam and in Cambodia and Laos, where our kin live.
Roads, taxes and forced labor, 1899–1945
French rule came to our villages as a tax to pay in cash and days of unpaid work on roads. The roads carried soldiers, officials and, later, the plantations onto our land. More than once, the work itself set off a revolt.
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