1870-1980” in F.W. Knight and C.A. Palmer‚ The Modern Caribbean‚ 85-110. Kusha R. Haraksingh‚ “Control and Resistance among Overseas Indian Workers: A Study of Labour on the Sugar Plantation of Trinidad‚ 1875-1917‚” in Beckles and Shepherd‚ Caribbean Freedom‚ 207-214. Rosammunde Renard‚ “Immigration and Indentureship in the French West Indies 1848-1870”‚ in Beckles and Shepherd‚ Caribbean Freedom‚ 161-168. Woodville Marshall‚ “Notes on Peasent development in the West Indies since 1838‚” Social and Economic
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What have been the major characteristics of changing patterns of stratification in the Caribbean? Show specific evidence to support your answer. An egalitarian society is one in which no one is categorized as poor or rich‚ as all members are equal. However there is no such society! Persons can only dream that one day our society will be egalitarian‚ but the reality is‚ we live in a society based on class‚ exploitation‚ oppression‚ privilege and status and although the stratification in the Caribbean
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few ways; Caribbean literature‚ fashion and music‚ all due to the colonial experience. Creolisation has played a major role in the evolution of music into several subgenres and fusions. Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid 20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 1600s. These slaves‚ brought to toil on sugar plantations‚ were
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‘historical’ definition of the Caribbean region. (2 marks) * This describes those islands that saw the impact of colonialism‚ slavery and indentureship 4. Identify TWO of the boundaries of the ‘geological’ Caribbean. (2 marks) * North- the line of the Greater Antilles * East - the line of Lesser Antilles * South - a line through Trinidad‚ Northern Venezuela and Colombia * West - the Western pacific Coast of Central America 5. Outline TWO different interpretations
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“Revolutionary Heroes” including Fidel Castro‚ Stokely Carmichael and Tubal Uriah Butler. The Black Power Movement instilled a sense of racial pride and self-esteem in blacks. Protests were taking place in many different Caribbean countries and in Trinidad they grew into a national movement including‚ not only
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INTRODUCTION The introduction of Indian contractual workers by individual planters during the British period started between 1820 and early 1830s. Arrival registers of the Indian Immigration Archives (MGI) testify that labourers from the Indian Peninsula disembarked in Mauritius as from 1842 and originated from Colombo‚ Cochin‚ Pondicherry‚ Madras and Calcutta. These experimental importations of local planters were an evident means of overcoming the acute shortage of labour arising in the colony
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As Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies Patricia Mohammed explains‚ "By the 1840s‚ Chinese indentureship was well on its way to failing as an organized labor system to replace freed slaves." As a result of Chinese immigrants finishing their contracts or abandoning their plantation‚ many moved on to their own businesses such as laundry owners‚ shopkeepers
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Processes in the Caribbean. Migratory movements and the establishments of patterns of settlements by different groups within the Caribbean from pre-Columbian times to the present. The development of systems of productions: Encomienda‚ Slavery‚ Indentureship and the plantation system. Responses of Caribbean people to oppression and genocide: resistance‚ development of peasant groups. Movements towards independence Political enfranchisement Movement towards Independence “From emancipation until
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it true to say that Indian Indentureship between 1845 and 1917 was simply another form of slavery? How does the evidence support this statement? Rationale My project will be to examine the lives of Indian Indentured labourers between 1845 and 1917. The reason I am examining their lives is to prove that Indian Indentureship was just another form of slavery with a different name. The project will also assist me in learning about the Indian Indentureship period for my CSEC examination
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African immigrants and Portuguese from Madeira. By far the largest group of new arrivals ‚ however were the Indians. Like the Portuguese they came as indentured workers to work in the sugar plantations. They soon became part of the populations of Trinidad‚ Guyana‚ Jamaica‚ Grenada and St. Vincent. Because of their large numbers‚ bringing with them religions‚ languages and cultural practices quite different from any found in the Caribbean ‚ they enriched but greatly complicated the society. They
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