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			Slavery

This coloured etching dates from 1806 and shows a Sunday market run by slaves in Antigua. Slaves had little control over their lives but they were sometimes able to shape and improve some aspects of their living conditions. On many plantations they were expected to use the little free time they had to grow crops on small areas of poor-quality land, known as provision grounds. In this way the enslaved could supplement the meagre provisions provided by their owners. To reduce their costs plantation owners were often willing to encourage slaves to provide for themselves. Some of this extra food was sold at slave markets, usually held on Sunday, which was the workers