emergence of the plantation system in the Caribbean. Discuss with special reference to the sugar industry. According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary a plantation is a long‚ artificially-established forest‚ farm or estate‚ where crops are grown for sale‚ often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption. The term plantation is informal and not precisely defined. Plantations are grown on a large scale as the crops grown are for commercial purpose Crops grown on plantations include fast-growing
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in the Caribbean Course Code: FOUN1301 Date Due: April 8th‚ 2014 Question: How far is it true to say that the plantation is still with us? There is still evidence of the plantation society within the modern Caribbean Society. This evidence can be seen from first analyzing various aspects of the plantation system or society‚ such as the; lifestyle‚ mentality‚ social structure and economic model associated with this social system. Then a comparison will be made between the plantation and modern
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Xavier Livermon AFS 3250 3/06/2013 Origin of the Plantation System One of the world’s most important events of the seventeenth century was the introduction of the sugar cane to the Caribbean Islands. During the “sugar revolution‚” sugar was in high demand and required a greater supply of labor. The importation of African slaves through the transatlantic slave trade provided the labor necessary to keep up with the rigorous demands for sugar products. The transportation of slaves to the New World
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C. Baird. Explain why the Caribbean slave population generally did not increase by natural means. The Caribbean slave population before the abolition of the slave trade in 1807‚ was one that experienced significant and extensive demographic changes whereby said population may have moved from a ratio of more men to women or vice versa‚ or grew or decreased in numbers. In fact‚ in Barbados‚ in 1764‚ “there were 70‚ 706 slaves on the island‚ however‚ in 1783‚ after importations which totalled
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Electoral systems in the Caribbean needs to be changed. How real is this view? An election as a political process serves as the single most important mechanism for citizens to participate in the selection of a government. When conducted to international standards‚ elections tend to confer legitimacy on a government. In the Commonwealth Caribbean‚ the electoral experience varies and tends to reflect not only the socio-political culture of the member state but also its particular electoral system.
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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 Studies Paper 1‚ May/June 2010 Section A- Module 1- Caribbean Culture and Society 1. (a) Outline ONE advantage of defining the Caribbean in geographical terms. [2mks] (b) Outline ONE disadvantage of using a geological basis for defining the Caribbean. [2mks] (c) Explain why Mexico is sometimes described as ‘Caribbean’. [2mks] 2. (a) Define the term ‘plate tectonics’ [2mks] (b) Describe TWO ways in which volcanic activity has influenced Caribbean society
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Man has been closely related with the nature since the down of civilization. Nature is helpful for all human beings. Nature abounds with trees. Trees are one of the best gifts of nature. As the civilization proceeds towards development‚ valuable nature assets are also getting damaged day by day. So it is the ease with trees. Now the ecological balance is distributed and the life becomes difficult. Our life and existence on earth greatly depends on trees. So we should plant trees through an existence
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Slavery was a system of forced labour implemented by the Europeans in the Caribbean. It was the act by which the Europeans brought Africans to the Caribbean on different ships to work on their plantations against their wills. It started in the 1600’s‚ many slaves committed suicide even before they could reach to the plantations; many of them also fell sick and died. However‚ after many efforts to overthrow the slavery system in 1830’s the enslaved populations on the plantations were eventually freed
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Life on a Plantation The life on a plantation was different for different types of slaves. There were the Filed Slaves and House or Domestic slaves. Both slave types were treated very poorly and unfair. Their were severely beaten and punished‚ often for no reason. Female slaves were also often raped by their masters or by local village boys. They could not defend themselves because the punishment for that would be even more devastating. The slaves didn’t have comfortable cabins. They had to
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