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Stalker
Anglo-Carib creole
et. 1600 - 1650
During the height of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade (see, Triangle Trade), British foremen on sugar plantations such as in Jamaica worked in close proximity with the Afro and Afro-Carib slaves. In these conditions, they would often divide the slaves into 3 categories.
1) Three Sink Nigger, a slave that emptied the water basins of the sugar mill, the foreman's home (see, Halfhovel), and the master's home.
2) Stalker, an adult slave tasked with the arduous job of reaping, transporting, and mashing fully grown sugar cane stalks.
3) Stalker Child, a juvenile slave tasked with seeding the fields and ensuring that irrigation ditches remained free of silt build-up.
Together these laborers would maintain the fields and crop, in a way similar to early New Zeeland fruit plantations (see, Kiwi Farmers).
Example in literature: "Slaveship Repo" - Sir Richard Tommlynsen, 1711
We shord on the 3rde of Maye, as the ilse had nay a port. Yet did the Stalkers and the Stalker Childs come onto us and aske for foode.
"Ribs!"
Was their plea. We did rebuke them scornfully.
"Away ye, nay ribs will ye have if ye tarry awaye from the fields, but enjoye prison will ye."
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