Introduction Slavery in the Caribbean began in the 16th century‚ when the first set of slaves was brought to work on plantations. During their journey and their arrival‚ they were abused‚ sold like animals‚ killed. The white slave owners‚ oppressed‚ abused and overworked them‚ with the belief that it would go on forever. This project tells about The Amelioration Act of the 1800s. It contains; the Amelioration Proposals‚ its impact on the planters and the slaves and how‚ eventually‚ it led to the
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Case Study of Barbados Michelle Mycoo Department of Surveying and Land Information‚ The University of the West Indies‚ Trinidad Tourist destinations are under market pressure to offer a green product‚ including the Caribbean‚ one of the world’s most tourism-dependent regions. A decade after the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States convened in 1994‚ sustainable tourism remains a priority for Caribbean countries. This paper‚ using Barbados as a case study
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CASE PROGRAM 2004-57.1 HIV/AIDS in the Barbados workplace – one company’s dilemma On 20 June 2004‚ George Hope‚ the General Manager of Caron Foods‚ a major manufacturing company in Barbados‚ faced the challenge of having to deal with the death of one of his employees - Maxine Cave - who had died of AIDS. Maxine was a production worker in the food plant and had been with the company for five years. She was a dedicated employee who had a positive work attitude. She rarely missed a day from work
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Historians believe that the earliest peoples to settle the Western Hemisphere did so between 15‚000 to 20‚000 years ago. They were a set of people that were nomadic: always on the go in search of food and warmer climate. This is the reason‚ it is believed‚ they came across the Bering Strait during the winter when it formed a land bridge connecting Asia to Alaska. Among these groups of early settlers were the - 1. Incas of Peru 2. Aztecs of Mexico 3. Mayans of Yucatan Peninsula (Belize‚ Guatemala
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century‚ at the colony of Roanoke‚ the thought of chattel slavery had neither a clear law nor economic practice with the English. However by the end of that following century‚ the demand for slaves in the English colonies including the Chesapeake‚ Barbados‚ Pennsylvania and the Carolinas was so great and the majority of labor was carried out by West African slaves. The argument of whether Native Americans could also be used as a form of labor for the plantation societies of the English colonies is
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Title: Men‚ Masculinity and Family Planning in Barbados since 1950 Personal reflection: initially I wanted to talk about something that had to do with women I was redirected to this topic about men‚ Masculinity and family planning in Barbados since the 1950s. This topic has proved to be very informative and a study of masculinity is definitely needed as one author said you can’t do a study on women without also looking at masculinity. Feminism has been studied for over four decades while masculinity
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high school students towards homosexuality among the youth in Barbados. Table of Contents Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INTRODUCTION As a teenager growing up in my homeland Barbados‚ I have noticed that over the past years the issue of homosexuality among the youth locally has been a much debated topic. However‚ more recently this has become a very heated discussion among young people in Barbados. Many adults as well as the students have alluded to the idea‚
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Caribbean Islands - Regional OverviewCaribbean Islands THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN ISLANDS have a distinctive history. Permanently influenced by the experiences of colonialism and slavery‚ the Caribbean has produced a collection of societies that are markedly different in population composition from those in any other region of the world. Lying on the sparsely settled periphery of an irregularly populated continent‚ the region was "discovered" by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Thereafter‚ it became
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After 1450‚ Madeira turned to Africa‚ as the slaves from Canary Island were dying‚ due to the exposure to diseases that Europeans brought with them.Only Africa could provide the growing number of workers required to achieve the high demand of sugar production. Additionally‚ the Africans slaves were able to work in the tropical conditions over a long period. Moreover‚ Madeira’s geographical location proved to be an advantage‚ as it allowed the trade of African slaves to run smoothly. Slavery in agriculture
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black; the size of landholdings changed; and eventually the West Indies became ‘the cockpit of Europe’. The list of changes the sugar revolution brought is almost inexhaustible. The sugar revolution is most clearly demonstrated in the history of Barbados where it occurred in roughly one decade‚ 1640 to 1650. It was not quite so rapid in the other islands. For example‚ Jamaica changed to sugar slowly and less completely at a much later date. However‚ in each island ‘revolution’ can be used to denote
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