Hope and deception in Conception Bay: merchant-settler relations in Newfoundland, 1785-1855
ISBN: 9780802004697
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Canadian;

Cadigan contends that the persistence of independent commodity production in the fishery of northeast coast Newfoundland from 1785 to 1855 cannot be attributed to the truck system, wherein merchants supplied fishing families with provisions, gear, and so on against the season's catch--a system now commonly viewed as shamefully exploitative of resident fisherman, as well as planters and servants. He calls for a reassessment of the truck system as a realistic accommodation to the limited possibilities and requirements of the local economy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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