How Did Slavery Affect The Caribbean Community
When one examines the post slavery effects on the modern day Caribbean community it is apparent that serious cultural and social implications under girths the issue of intimate partner abuse especially for those of the African lineage. Islands within the Caribbean region typically share a close relations as it relates to political, cultural, economic and religious make-up; more crucially most, if not all have an identity that is ineradicably marred by the rampage of slavery. Historically, Caribbean islands such as Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); Jamaica, The Bahamas, Barbados, Leeward Islands, St. Kitts and Neves and many others experienced periods of slavery and colonization where savagery and chronic abuse were a daily
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Lynch’s ( ) master-plan to ensure that slave-master indoctrination survive, become self-refueling and self-generating for thousands of years within enslaved territories continues to prove ingenious. Lynch’s recipe has not only survived, but is thriving, having breached the one hope for the survival a nation by permeating and grossly mutating the geneses of future generations of children. As a direct consequence of this breech into the human essence from such a young age, the slave master has cultivated a lopsided, symbiotic relationship where the host live and rule by the code of self-hatred, ignorance, brutishness and violence. The stanchly insistence that: ‘cut hip ain’t never kill anyone… it make you a better man’; ‘bend the tree while it young’ –through the means of the rod- are covert expressions of Lynch’s plan to destroy a nation through the cycle of violence. These cultural acts of aggression and violence dehumanizes, victimizes; produces cruel children with an insatiable appetite, tolerance and tendencies toward violence. These are the same children who grow with poor conflict resolution skills and when they become mates are more likely to use violence as a means of control and to resolve conflicts. Moreover, the custom of physical aggression as a means of discipline or punishment can easily breed and feeds into the ever revolving intergenerational cycles of abuse against women (Plumridge
Lynch’s ( ) master-plan to ensure that slave-master indoctrination survive, become self-refueling and self-generating for thousands of years within enslaved territories continues to prove ingenious. Lynch’s recipe has not only survived, but is thriving, having breached the one hope for the survival a nation by permeating and grossly mutating the geneses of future generations of children. As a direct consequence of this breech into the human essence from such a young age, the slave master has cultivated a lopsided, symbiotic relationship where the host live and rule by the code of self-hatred, ignorance, brutishness and violence. The stanchly insistence that: ‘cut hip ain’t never kill anyone… it make you a better man’; ‘bend the tree while it young’ –through the means of the rod- are covert expressions of Lynch’s plan to destroy a nation through the cycle of violence. These cultural acts of aggression and violence dehumanizes, victimizes; produces cruel children with an insatiable appetite, tolerance and tendencies toward violence. These are the same children who grow with poor conflict resolution skills and when they become mates are more likely to use violence as a means of control and to resolve conflicts. Moreover, the custom of physical aggression as a means of discipline or punishment can easily breed and feeds into the ever revolving intergenerational cycles of abuse against women (Plumridge