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African Americans In The Caribbean
We learned in chapter one that globalization blends different cultures to form hybrids. The African Diaspora, the forced removal of Africans from their native lands, brought on a new hybrid in the Caribbean. It all began in the 16th century when about 10 million Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves. More than half of these slaves were sent to the Caribbean. The Caribbean now has the most concentrated cluster of Africans in the Americas, with most of the population living in the Greater Antilles. With the imprint of millions of Africans in the Caribbean, a neo-Africa was created, allowing the African people and their culture to prevail. Maroons, communities of runaway slaves, are a group of people who provide one of the greatest
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