📅 19 Desèmber 1953
The DRV law established a legal framework for redistributing land from landlords to cultivators. The campaign changed village property relations and strengthened state power, but also involved...
📅 6 Mei 1826
The Code Rural, issued at the National Palace on 6 May 1826, sought to bind cultivators to plantation production through contracts and rural policing. Later scholarship documents penalties for...
📅 5 Ougùstùs 1802
As French repression intensified and fears of restored slavery spread, General Charles Bélair raised the standard of revolt. This renewed uprising drew on rural networks and the laboring population...
