Throughout history, it was perceived that the Caribbean was a place that was said to be uncivilized, had no history because no one was literate, only had two distinct groups of people and that one of the groups (The Caribs) were man eaters. All those perceptions came from the Europeans and these are the “foreigners”  that are being referred to. Christopher Columbus wrote letters depicting people from the Caribbean as being cannibals and being good servants because they repeated whatever he said to them. This Eurocentric perception of the Caribbean has been the only side people have seen or heard about the Caribbean. Chimamanda Adichie stated in her TED talk a quote from Mourid Barghouti which says, “if you want to dispossess a people the simplest way to do it is to tell their story.” That is what the Europeans did, they deprived the Caribbean from telling their own story and in turn they created this horrid image of the Caribbean. Therefore, revisionism of our Caribbean history is needed to fix the false representations and to let people see the real Caribbean for how it truly was/is. 

On the other hand, enslavement in West Africa existed before it was brought to the Caribbean. In West African slavery, race didn’t play as a leading factor in fuelling slavery since the masters and slaves were of the same skin complexion. In this instance, slaves were something the results of debt payments owed by either master or the enslaved himself. This then means that in a sense slavery was voluntary. Enslaved people were sometimes those who were criminals, those who practiced witchcraft and sometimes those who were even kidnapped. In west Africa, the enslaved were valued as both a social being also as economic factors. These enslaved were the basis of the West African slave masters wealth because not much importance was place on land as in Europe, so the value shifted to the slaves.