Slavery had been going on for hundreds of years in the Caribbean. The European powers dominated and exploited the region for its riches‚ resources‚ and its people and provided an oppressed servile class of Africans to use as a labor resource. The slaves would work on plantations against their will without any regard for their well-being or livelihood. Furthermore‚ as the industry began to develop‚ the Caribbean saw a major decline in slavery partnered with a rise in indentured servitude. This
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“THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH LIFE. 1950-2000” This book has been written by Andrew S. Rosen‚ who has been named president of Kaplan‚ Inc.‚ a leading provider of educational services to individuals‚ schools and businesses. The author has chosen his title carefully: British life in the second half of the twentieth century was transformed but not changed. The book talks about some aspects as life‚ transport and other‚ like customs. The religion‚ for example. There was a division of that. On
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Is the Caribbean a geographical region defined by proximity to a body of water? Is it a group of nations defined by a common history or culture or by political links? Is there such a thing as a Caribbean identity or spirit or culture shared by all the territories clustered around the Caribbean Sea‚ regardless of language or political status? Do we as a Caribbean people act as members of a community or a culture that extends beyond the shores of individual islands? This essay will seek to show
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate CSEC CARIBBEAN HISTORY SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May/June 2011 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council © 2010‚ Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher.
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Sugar Studying sugar may seem like an ineffective way to approach the Caribbean’s rise to a globalized economy. It is quite the contrary‚ sugar rose to be an extremely popular and profitable staple for the international food economy. It grew to play a major role in what we know of today as the global food market. Sugar started developing immense popularity around the 1960’s due to colonial slavery‚ the industrialization of a global economy‚ and an increase in tea consumption. Sugar was introduced
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Caribbean Studies notes Module 1 Caribbean society and culture Location of the Caribbean Greater Antilles: Cuba‚ Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic)‚ Jamaica‚ Puerto Rico Lesser Antilles: * Windward islands: Grenada‚ St. Vincent‚ St. Lucia‚ Guadeloupe‚ Dominica‚ Martinique * Leeward islands: Antigua and Barbuda‚ St. Kitts-Nevis‚ Montserrat‚ Anguilla‚ Virgin islands Netherland Antilles: Aruba‚ Bonaire‚ Curacao (ABC"islands); Saint Marten‚ Saba‚ St. Eustatius Mainland Territories:
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: Discuss the connection between political parties and trade unions in Jamaica and one other Caribbean country‚ showing areas of similarity and difference. A Political Party is a political organization that normally seeks to influence government and government policy‚ this is done by nominating their own candidates‚ trying to seat them in political office. Parties often express an ideology or vision of specific views and participate in electoral campaigns and protest actions. The emergence of
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Slavery‚ in my eyes‚ is an institution that has always been ridiculed on behalf of the physical demands of the practice‚ but few know the extreme mental hardships that all slaves faced. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs writes autobiographically about her families’ and her personal struggles as a maturing "mullatto" child in the South. Throughout this engulfing memoir of Harriet Jacobs life‚ this brave woman tells of many trying times
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SLAVERY A. Slaves were people captured in war‚ used to settle a debt‚ or made slaves as a means of punishment. The Spaniards in the Caribbean had little need for African slaves in the early 1500s for various reasons. The Treaty of Tordesillas‚ which was a line of demarcation drawn north to south‚ west of the Azores and Cape Verde’s‚ stipulated that the areas west of the line belonged to the Spaniards and the east to the Portuguese. As a result of the treaty Africa was on Portugal’s side of
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl "READER‚ be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are‚ nevertheless‚ strictly true. I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery; on the contrary‚ my descriptions fall far short of the facts." Harriet Jacobs‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (5) Harriet Jacobs did not write to attract attention for herself. Nor did she try to create pity for her sufferings and find sympathy
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