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Colonization of the Caribbean
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History and Influence of the colonization
Arawaks
Caribs
-> competing european powers caused complete transformation of native environment, people and their culture
First to arrive 1492
wanted to reach the Orient
Goal: accumulation of riches & expansion of christianity
Christopher Columbus and the start of colonization
The influence of
Sugar cane
The idea of
Black Inferiority
A Dominican Creole general
"Emancipation"
Ethiopianism
Haile
Selassie
Cultural
changes
Jamaica 1944
Political changes
Britain
St. Lucia
Semi-dependent
to
Guyana
Jamaica
Independence
The colonization of the Caribbean
Creoles: Language influenced by
colonialism and oppression
Several creole languages
- spoken by slave communities
Standard english
- spoken by masters & landowners
Spread of pidgin english around the world:
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