THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF INDENTURESHIP ON THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN BETWEEN THE PERIOD OF 1838 AND 1921 According to readings in the Caribbean Studies‚ indentureship is a contract labor system in which the workers were waged to work in the Caribbean. These indentured workers had to sign a contract for their employer ensuring that they will work for them for a period of time usually 3-5 years. They were punished if the contract was breached and received three benefits at the end of their contract
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Samantha Mellin CLP0220: Caribbean Lit & Culture January 31‚ 2015 When most people think about the Caribbean’s they think of it as a get away from reality to have sunshine and fun. What most people don’t understand is that the Caribbean has a huge hybridity of people that live on this Island and they have a true understanding of what the Caribbean life has to offer. After reading many of the Caribbean Short Stories I was able to see many of the issues Caribbean people are faced with daily. The
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wore her thick‚ dark riding habit while on her horse. This story reflects the importance of class and color of this time period in Caribbean Literature. “Triumph” by C.L.R James displays the injustices of the colonial society in the island of Trinidad. The story takes place in a barrack yard‚ or slums‚ in Port of Spain. “In these lived the porters‚ the prostitutes‚ cartermen‚ washerwomen‚ and domestic servants of the city” (James 35). In the barrack yard you can see that life was clearly difficult
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primarily Trinidad. Its origin though not Caribbean based was very influential towards the religion itself. Its development and its practices were also important in its recognition. The effect of the religion was also attached to social and political backgrounds. The Spiritual Baptists or Shouter Baptists originate from the combined religions of traditional African religion and Christianity‚ although the Spiritual Baptists consider themselves fully Christian. The religion was brought to Trinidad by ‘Merikins’
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Topic: Defining the Caribbean Thesis: The Caribbean‚ also known as the West Indies is defined as a broad crescent of tropical islands extending from the Bahamas and Cuba southwards to Trinidad with varied history resulting from the various races of people and various cultures characterized by different languages‚ music and dance. Topic | Sentence | The physical landscape | The crescent shaped physical landscape of the Caribbean is located between ten and twenty degrees north and eighty
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they arrived in the Caribbean. Indenture-ship had the greatest impact in Trinidad and Guyana‚ where the sugar industry continued to flourish after it declined in other islands. With the exception of Haiti‚ Santo Domingo‚ Puerto Rico and Barbados‚ the Caribbean underwent a demographic revolution in the 1800s because of this new immigrant labor. Indenture-ship became a major labor relations system in Jamaica‚ Guyana and Trinidad. As a result of the arrival of immigrant workers‚ the Caribbean benefitted
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Topic: The immigration of East Indian indentured workers to the Caribbean in the 19th century could be regarded as a new system of slavery. Slavery was the initial labour system used by Europeans on their plantations in the Caribbean. It was implemented in the 1600`s‚ the Europeans forcefully took people from the African continent to the Caribbean on various trips. The path in which the slaves were carried between Africa and the Caribbean is known to historians as the Triangular Trade. These Africans
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Canada feel more at home. She asked me to teach she how to speak like we. I felt very proud to be a Tobagonian at that point. Gran‚ I must tell you‚ Margaret is de greatest friend ever. She told me that by de end of the year I will be back in Tobago with you. That was she promise to me. She is very determined on fulfilling this promise. Well that is it for now. Please take care of yourself and say hi to de goats and de chickens dem for me. Bye bye. I love you Gran. Your loving grand-daughter
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The speech event depicts two Caribbean natives Oliver Samuels and Marvin ‘Trini’ Ishmaels as two tourists who have just arrived at their destination in Canada. Oliver Samuels is a Jamaican native while Marvin ‘Trini’ Ishmaels is a native of Trinidad. Both characters are at the moment placing telephone calls to various places in hopes of finding a room for rent. The speech event is used to demonstrate the language varieties of the interlocutors. It also depicts how an individual’s identity can
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help his people. The war seemed to have done nothing but cause havoc and formulate desperation among the locals. The Spiritual Baptist religion had existed in Trinidad for years and many of the people of Bonasse were members of it. When the Americans came to Bonasse during World War 2‚ a law was created disallowing the people of Trinidad to preach in the Spiritual Baptist religion. Though the members were doing nothing wrong‚ they were unfairly banned from worshipping their religion which meant
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