Caribbean Community

Metropolitan Movements towards Emancipation Topic: What role did women play on the Plantation? Table of Contents Rationale During my study of Caribbean history at Kingston College there has been little mention of women during slavery as such I wanted to get more information for my personal development and knowledge. The focus is primarily on the highlight of the male counterpart. The females

in America. The new society mostly called Creole was largely African in demographic structure (Whatley and Gillezeau, p572). It is from this that the people of America population intermingled with African hence generating composite and dynamic communities which owed little if anything to European influence. It was very clear that once one was enslaved in the transatlantic trade, would not come back to his people. Thus, people became rebellious and those captured were carried away against their will

Slavery ended in 1838. One of the biggest negatives of such a system was racism which was found in every Caribbean society. British officials believed that people of Africans descent were inferior and what was worse perhaps these racist attitudes were after internalized by Black and Brown people that is some Africans themselves became convinced that they were inferior to Europeans. With Emancipation in 1838 slaves became free to choose the nature of their future existence. A fundamental

Haiti is how amazing the place was. I believe it is an island that is the most populated country in the Caribbean Community and third most popular country in the Caribbean as a whole. “The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the Western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. It was inhabited by Taino, an Arawakan people, who variously called their island Ayiti,

In the religion, “Bondye is the highest principle in the universe and is responsible for both the universal order and human activity. He is the wholeness of the human community and is the origin of all life, which ultimately belongs to him” (Bondye, the Good God of Vodou). There are other lesser beings in voodoo that are referred to as lwa or loa. Lwa are commonly mistaken for lesser gods when in fact they are just spirits

communities. In the United Sates, they were seen as black, members of a definite minority. The amount of education, the amount of income, and culture, didn’t erase ones blackness, as it would back home. Nor are whites sensitive to shade differences, as people are in Jamaica. Whatever their shade or achievements, Jamaicans were victims of racial discrimination in employment, education, and housing. For many Jamaicans, this was the first time that they became painfully aware that black skin was a significant

by the British weren’t true. The pay was small, health care was far from good and the treatment was harsh. The East Indians were tricked into coming to Trinidad but the Africans weren’t embraced with a story of "bed of roses" life coming to the Caribbean; he was snatched away from his native land to be sold as a slave in the West Indies and in the Americas. In those days the European slave master saw nothing wrong with his evil practice. In fact the White man could have done anything to the slaves;

Introduction to Haiti Haiti is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola. It is the third largest Caribbean nation with a population of 10.4 million which makes it the most populous full-member state of the Caribbean community. Haiti is also the poorest country in the Americas as measured by the human development index. Haiti is so poor that people used to work as restavecs(unpaid household servant).half of the children in Haiti are unvaccinated.2%of the total

drawing specific reference to the nature of slave society and how the enslaved fought against their enslavement. Every society, in the Caribbean or anywhere else, is a product of the particular historical forces that shaped it and gave it form. For the Caribbean the most impactful historical force was the introduction of slavery and slave societies to the Caribbean and the period thereafter, up until its abolition. Although slavery is done, it is

Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America make up Latin America. Approximately 640 million people reside in this region. Latin America is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the United States. It is the United States’ fastest growing trading partner, as well as its biggest supplier of illegal drugs. Latin America is also the largest source of U.S immigrants, both documented and not. The life expectancy for females is 72 years of age and the life expectancy for males is 79 years