the slaves back to the West Indies. Pocahontas: Would they go shopping with the money they got from selling the slaves? Galileo: No Pocahontas‚ traders would take their profits and buy more molasses. Malan: So they would trade human beings for a sugar product? Sacagawea: That’s really messed up. Galileo: Yes‚ it is messed up. But it’s true. The saddest parts that the slaves were treated so harshly that some of them didn’t even make it to the West Indies. Malan: How many slaved
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If only the West Indies team was picked to optimize their players’ strengths By Zaheer E. Clarke A tall‚ lissome and athletic 17-year-old young man from Chelsea Road in Bay Land‚ Barbados was once picked as a fast bowler to represent the West Indies Test team. By today’s standards‚ he would have been thought too young to have a glass of red wine much less be handed a red ball to pelt at batsmen in international cricket. Unsurprisingly‚ in his first match at Sabina Park‚ like most fast bowlers‚
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Test-playing nations including England‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ West Indies‚ India and Pakistan and two from associate members of the ICC –– the East Africans and the Sri Lankans. The West Indies opened its World Cup history with a resounding nine-wicket win over Sri Lanka at Old Trafford‚ Manchester in June 1975. It was a 60-over-a-side format competition and since that crushing victory against a team widely regarded as the minnows‚ the West Indies acquired the title of ‘King of one-day cricket’ following
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the war but she tragically sunk during her mission. Of the one thousand one hundred and ninety-six men aboard‚ only three hundred and seventeen survived (Field). The “Indy” was written down as the worst naval disaster in history. The U.S.S Indianapolis was built in Camden‚ New Jersey. It was launched and commissioned in 1931. The “Indy” was six hundred and ten feet and three inches‚ or one hundred eighty-six meters‚ and was displaced at nine thousand nine hundred and fifty tons. The main battery consisted
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1 OLD WORLD‚ NEW WORLDS THE CHAPTER IN PERSPECTIVE Early modern Europe emerged from its isolation during the Middle Ages by conquering the world’s oceans—opening direct contact and commerce with Africa and Asia and rediscovering America. Before the end of the fourteenth century‚ western Europeans had relied on the mariners and merchants of the Muslim world for their access to the trade and technology of the rest of the known world‚ Africa and Asia. But during the fifteenth century‚ western
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Iberians/Europeans and the indigenous people of the Americas came into contact with one another through the want of new resources and good. This interaction resulted in mass epidemics and slavery in the Americas. Ever since Columbus landed in the West indies‚ Europeans were looking for gold‚ resources‚ spices‚ as well workers. The genocide of the Amerindians wasn’t something that the Europeans and Columbus intended on happening. Even with the large populations of the Amerindians; and how
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The restoration colonies New York: Old nether landers at new Netherlands 1600-golden ages of Dutch history. - maj. Commercial & naval power - challenging England on seas - 3 maj. Anglo-Dutch wars - maj. Colonial power [mainly in the East Indies.] New Netherlands - new Netherlands : founded in the Hudson River area (1623-1624) - established Dutch west India comp. for quick-profit fur trade. - company wouldn’t pay much attention to colony - manhattan [ new Amsterdam ] - purchased
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part of a new charter from the organization of the Virginia Company. The ship‚ however‚ wrecked onto the Caribbean on one of the Bermuda islands from a hurricane. While stranded between 1609 and 1611‚ Rolfe collected the tobacco seeds from the West Indies/Spanish (the natives in the Caribbean) before he and other colonists traveled back to Virginia. By 1612‚ Rolfe began to plant his tobacco experimentations in Virginia. Originally
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Devastation A discussion of why the Earth is cruel Sometimes‚ bad things happen. We can not always control it‚ or stop them from happening. The only thing that there is to do is to prepare‚ and know how to handle whatever life throws at us. Devastation can come in many forms‚ it can come as earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ tornados‚ storms‚ and anything inbetween. After reading “Sometimes‚ the Earth is Cruel‚” by Leonard Pitts‚ I found that the main theme that stands out is devastation. First reason
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tobacco (Tunis 77). Though tobacco cultivation seemed to be flourishing‚ consumers were still getting their tobacco from the Spanish Indies‚ as the Spanish Indies grew milder tobacco than America (Weeks 1). This motivated John Rolfe to sail to the Spanish Indies and confiscate some of their tobacco seeds ("The Growth of the Tobacco " 2). The tobacco from the Spanish Indies boosted the economic growth of colonial America (2). However‚ John Rolfe was not the first person to have tobacco in the new world
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