INTRODUCTION This S.B.A (school based assessment) contains factual information on 17th century Port Royal. It will inform the reader about how Port Royal gained its wealth and infamous reputation. It contains information on Port Royal’s economy. This project will inform on the livestyle of the residents of Port Royal during the 17th century and how trading was conducted. It will tell how the buccaneers contributed to Port Royals economy. RATIONALE In the 17th
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Creole cuisine takes its quality from the history of the French West Indies. Caribbean food and culture was born when the European traders brought African slaves into the region. The slaves ate mostly leftovers from their owners‚ so not unlike the slaves in the United States they had to do with what they had. This was the birth of contemporary Caribbean Cuisine. The African slaves blended the knowledge of spices and vegetables they had brought from their homeland and included them with the precious
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PAST PAPER QUESTIONS – CARIBBEAN HISTORY Emancipation 1. How significant was the rebellion in Jamaica (Christmas Rebellion) in 1831-2 as a cause of the passing of the Emancipation Act in 1833? 2. How significant a part did slaves play in ending slavery? 3. How important a factor was the resistance of the enslaved in bringing about emancipation in the Caribbean? 4. “The Emancipation Act (1833) favoured the planters more than the slaves.” Identify and discuss the parts of the
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prove that they once settled and ruled in Jamaica .several aspects of British legacy in Jamaica that are explored in this project are architecture‚ food‚ religion‚ place names and language .certaintly This will Educate people about their History and Culture which is important to help us know more About our past so we may ably and progressively press forward onto a successful future. Area of Research Theme : The Indigenous Peoples and the Europeans Topic : What evidence
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Social work and Social Welfare has been with us from as far back as the 1600’s and it has always been‚ and has continued to be a response to human needs. In order to understand its historical development‚ it is necessary to examine the significant factors‚ which has influenced its evolution. It can be said however that factors such as the establishment of the Elizabethan poor laws‚ the emancipation of slavery and the social unrest which resulted in the 1937 riots‚ played a momentous role in the development
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The Indigenous People Of The Americas CXC Past Paper Question (1992) QUESTION 5 (a) Name two groups of Amerindians who lived in the Caribbean before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. (2 marks) ANSWER Tainos (Arawaks) and Kalinagos Caribs (b) Give two examples of the way of life before 1492 of any one of the groups named at (a) above (6 marks) ANSWER (Group Tainos) The cacique was the head of the Tainos society. The cacique was a hereditary title which passed down from father
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Brief History of the Caribbean through Emancipation 1492 – When Queen Isabella of Spain sent Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean. His official mission was to discover a new trade right to Asia and “Christianize” the “heathers” who lived there. ▪ Christopher Columbus and the Spanish “conquistadores” who followed him made little secret of their real interest. ▪ When Columbus landed in the Bahamas and saw the native Arawaks adorned with gold trinkets‚ he was convinced that
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HOW DO THE CARIBBEAN PEOPLE RESPOND TO OPPRESSION? 2. OPPRESSION Oppression is the experience of repeated‚ widespread‚ systemic injustice. It need not be extreme and involve the legal system (as in slavery‚ apartheid‚ or the lack of right to vote) nor violent (as in tyrannical societies). 3. What Really happened Between 1662 and 1807‚ Britain shipped 3.1 million Africans across the Atlantic ocean in the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were forcibly brought to British owned colonies in the Caribbean
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Caribbean Crucible: History‚ Culture‚ and Globalization Kevin A. Yelvington In the present age of globalization‚ it is often forgotten that these world-encompassing processes were initiated with European expansion into the Caribbean beginning more than five hundred years ago. We now see the proliferation of overseas factories enabling owners‚ producers‚ and consumers of products to be in widely distant locales. It seems to us that in the search for profits‚ commercial activity has recently spread
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Women In Caribbean History: Assignment ‘Natural Rebels.’ How appropriate in this description when applied to enslave Caribbean women? The years of slavery have been living hell for both enslaved men and women‚ from the day it begun to its end. They worked under the same conditions‚ received the same punishment and also rebelled in the same ways most of the time. The women‚ however‚ had some unique ways of rebelling against slavery provided by their difference in gender and allocation
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