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for this activity i went to the national museum and art gallery in Port-of-Spain and i was able to obtain pictures of the collection from the Indigenous people and the Europeans of the Caribbean an it spoke volumes.
From these few artifacts one can be reassured that the history of the Caribbean certainly does not begin when Columbus and his men came, but from way before that and the proof exists not only in the bones found but also the artifacts because they proved that there were civilizations existing and functioning well and utilizing hand made tools they for daily life.
I was also able to get a picture of some old type ammunition which to me spoke of ethnocentrism because when Columbus and his men came with their modernized weapons they had an ethnocentric attitude as they immediately judged the natives culture by comparing it to their own considering themselves as superior.
All the artifacts show some form of REVISIONISM and they also DEFINE THE CARIBBEAN because they help us to explore the past based on factual and physical items which in turn gives a background of which we as a Caribbean people can identify and so adds to the definition because as we know there is no "one" definition of the Caribbean.
References:
“Homepage of Orrin Lewis.” Orrin's Homepage, www.bigorrin.org/orrin.htm.

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Learning Activity 2.1- Columbus and the Caribbean.

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Learning Activity 2.1- Columbus and the Caribbean.

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2.1
On August 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with intentions to find a new route to Asia. On October 12th he landed in the Bahamas which she called San Salvador whose native name was Guanahaniu.
“How can one “discover” A place already inhabited and named by people?
I would not say that Columbus discovered the Caribbean simply because there were people already living here though they were not as developed as Columbus and his men. They were living in the various tribes and villages with different cultures and traditions. One might argue that’s because it was a new land to him he did discover but to me he did not Columbus and his men simply stumbled upon the already inhabited and civilized caribbean and they decided to conquer, destroy and massacre entire cultures and traditions which existed long before their invasion.
There is no doubt that to Columbus and his men the natives were primitive and we can also see that because now we live in an already developed and continually developing world but to those natives their lives weren’t primitive. They had their Methods of hunting and cooking, building, selectng a Leader, and caring for the sick.
Therefore, I would say that the Caribbean experience and had civilization who knows how long before Christopher Columbus. There were cultures and traditions, laws and consequences all aspects of a civilization and even though they weren’t as developed as Columbus on his man it was their way if life and when Columbus invaded he destroyed the civilizations, cultures and traditions and forced his own ways upon them.
References:
DavidandRemus. “Christopher Columbus: What Really Happened.” YouTube, YouTube, 6 Nov. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_unlvjccA.

“Christopher Columbus did not discover the Caribbean.” Words in the Bucket, 16 Oct. 2017, www.wordsinthebucket.com/christopher-columbus-did-not-discover-the-caribbean.

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The caribbean lands were very fertile and so it was easy for them to experiment with agriculture. They planted crops such as tobacco, cotton, (the main crops of the english) cocoa (main crop of the spanish), dye wood and ginger.
Cocoa is one crop that thrived in Trinidad better than in any other caribbean country, from around the middle of the 17th century (Bekele 2004) While the cocoa plantations were thriving and boosting the economy in someway the time was limited and within about 100 years is it was no longer a viable export crop.
Cocoa is one crop that put the Caribbean‘s economy on the market and made us known by others for trade and then made way for the sugar industry.
When the sugar industry kicked off the development of the Caribbean boosted and I say this because sugar plantation were set up throughout the Caribbean and the thrive in more than one country for example Jamaica’s sugar plantation had the most fertile sugar cane acreage.
Sugar production increased rapidly and the sugar industry boomed which is when it became a large part of not Europe’s economy but the Caribbean’s economy as well.
References:
Whipps, Heather. “How Sugar Changed the World.” LiveScience, Purch, 2 June 2008, www.livescience.com/4949-sugar-changed-world.html.

“University of Minnesota Libraries.” The Sugar Trade in the West Indies and Brazil Between 1492 and 1700 · University of Minnesota Libraries, www.lib.umn.edu/bell/tradeproducts/sugar.

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Chattel slavery was the type of enslavement practiced in the Caribbean with the enslaved viewed as property meaning they had no rights and so they were often murdered and raped without anybody but their own caring.
White bonded labour consisted of those undesirable whites for example convicts or prostitutes, and they came to the Caribbean to work on a contract which stated that they were expected to work for a certain number of years and after completion they would be freed.
It is very clear to us that white bonded labor was in no possible way equivalent to chattel slavery because first and foremost they were not forced to come, they had a choice on the contract to sign and even though they were rejects from their society they still had rights and could not be killed or raped without there being serious consequences.
West African slavery however even though it is without a doubt slavery it was more humane than chattel slavery. There was no dominant race factor because many of these liberals seemed to work and live just like their so called Masters unlike chattel slavery where the sleaves were lower than below their master.
being born into west african slavery meant that you would as the enslaved be protected and had rights unlike chattel slavery.
The slaves in west african slavery were regarded as social and economic factor whilst in chattel slavery they were nothing more than property.
The West African slavers were also granted certain rights and freedoms protected by the heads of the household and indeed could rise to a position of prominence in the household and in the wider society.
Within slavery whether it be west African or chattel their skin colour had a great deal when it comes to the benefits because the light skinned slaves were usually put to work in the houses and they were treated more humane than their darker relatives and even though they were still scorned and looked down upon as property it was not as bad as the darker slaves would have been treated.
References:
IBW21st. “A Short History of Slavery in the Caribbean.” YouTube, YouTube, 15 Sept. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9vy-82dh8.

ichehimi. “Social 10-1: Chattel Slavery.” YouTube, YouTube, 31 May 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OYjWNUa_kE.