Plantation

Our third episode, Plantation, begins after the establishment of the Tragarete Estate by the French Cedulant Maury de Lapeyrouse.

This is the era of the rise of the French Creole class and the change of the country’s dominant language from Spanish to French "patois", leading to the creation of a new genre of music—the kaiso, created by enslaved Africans to offer commentary on their masters' lifestyles.