déserter

Ils désertaient un système de caste connu sous le nom de Jim Crow.
They were defecting a caste system known as Jim Crow.
Parfois, en un seul jour, une petite dizaine d’entre eux désertaient, parfois personne.
Sometimes, in a single day, a dozen of them deserted, sometimes no one.
Il fallait combler le vide que laissaient ceux qui désertaient massivement les plantations dès qu’apparaissaient d’autres opportunités d’emploi.
We had to fill the vacuum left by those who abandoned the sugar cane fields en masse as soon as other work opportunities appeared.
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