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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scotley" data-source="post: 2383850" data-attributes="member: 11520">Discussions with the Priestess"Mr. Boudreau hmmm," she looks at you with curiosity. "Well, he is not a bad plantation owner as such things go. You must understand that there is little usable land on our swampy island and few jobs. The plantation owners control all the land going back to the time of the Rain of Uncounted Days. Once they ruled over the people as slaveowners. When all were freed it changed things only a little. In order to get work one has to work for the plantation onwers. They have strict rules and can expect hard work for small pay. Some times the foremen are aggresive in enforcing the rules. We have recourse of law, but if one of the people reports a plantation owner then he and his family are blackballed by all the plantation owners and that means no work. We can survive in the swamps without the money of the landholders, but it is an even poorer existance. Things were better before the plague. There were more opportunities because of all the open trade. More of the people worked building boats or on the docks or even had shops of their own. With the collapse of trade during the plague years there were no jobs for anyone and the people lost their shops and there were no cargos to load or boats to build or repair. Now only the landowners have jobs to offer. To make money we have to work for them at whatever wage they pay and under whatever rules they make. Trade will make things better. The landowners will get richer, but the lives of the people will also improve."</blockquote>

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