Definition
The main powers that colonized the Caribbean
What is France, Spain, Great Britain and The Netherlands?
Caribbean countries excluded from the geographical definition due to not being washed by the Caribbean sea but are included with the historical definition.
What are The Bahamas, Barbados and Guyana?
This country was the first to gain its independence, forty years before another could
What is Haiti?
Peoples who after independence moved around to form global diasporic communities
Who are post-colonial migrants?
A sacred indigenous practice known for its spiritual and healing properties. It is still common today but without the sacredness
What is smoking tobacco?
The labour system in place pre Chattel Slavery.
What is Encomienda?
The name of the region that should be included based on this definition but has many countries not traditionally labelled Caribbean
What is Latin America?
The only Anglophone island of the Greater Antilles
What is Jamaica?
Persons who worked under contract for an employer for a specific time in order to pay off passage to a new country. This practice surged after emancipation
Who are the indentured labourers?
A music genre originating in the 1960s that is a fusion of mento, jazz, blues and African folk hymns
What is Reggae?
What is India China and the Pacific?
The countries of origin for the indentured labourers
We are practically ignored in this definition despite being here first
Who are the Taino, Kalinago, Ciguayo and Guanahatabey?
This country was invaded by The USA in 1983 after a coup
What is Grenada?
An indigenous group who originated from South America and migrated to the lesser antilles. Today, they mostly reside in Dominica
Who are the Kalinago?
A religion born from syncretism between Yoruba religion, Catholicism and Spiritism most commonly practised in Hispanophone countries
What is Santeria?
An economy based on agricultural mass production grown on large farms worked on by slaves or labourers. This had its hay day mainly from the 16th to 19th century
What was the plantation system?
An anglophone archipelago who is still under colonial rule, just north of another archipelago with the same definition
What are The British Virgin Islands?
This country immediately freed their slaves in 1834, rather than going through a period of apprenticeship
What is Antigua?
People who were captured and forced into labour between the 16th and 19th century
Who are the enslaved Africans?
The process by which a cultured is merged into a different, dominant culture
What is acculturation?