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The document summarizes various schemes used to recruit immigrant labor to the Caribbean following emancipation in 1838. It discusses the recruitment of liberated Africans, Africans, Europeans (particularly Portuguese Madeirans, Scots, Irish, French and Germans), Chinese, and Indians to fill labor shortages on plantations. The reasons for recruiting immigrant groups included maintaining production on estates, increasing the labor supply after the flight of freed slaves, increasing the white population, supp

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