Understanding the Caribbean – Antigua / Colonizer and Slaves.

Greater Antilles: Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica.

Lesser Antilles: Leeward & Windward Islands, and Leeward Antilles.

Antigua & Barbuda:

- Independent State within Commonwealth (1967)
- Ciboney, Arawak and Carib tribes.
- 1667: A British colony.
- Sugar /roam industry & slavery.
- In 100 years, slaves´ numbers rose by 200% - 12000 to 37000.
- 91% of black population.
- English is main language, its dialect: Patois.
- Main religions: Adventism and Anglicanism.

Triangular Trade:
- From Caribbean Islands to Europe --- Raw Materials (Sugar, Cotton,
Tobacco).
- From Europe to Africa --- Manufactured Goods.
- From Africa to The Caribbean Islands --- Enslaved Africans.

A Chronology of Slavery.
- 1500: The Portuguese and the Spanish start trading slaves from Senegal
to America.
- 1562: Britain joined the Trading nations.
- 17th Century: Britain gains Caribbean territories.
- 18th Century: Britain becomes leader of trading business.
- 1662 – 1807: Britain took more than 3 million blacks to America.
- 1807: Slave Trade Act passed – It forbids trading slaves only.
- 1834: Emancipation Act passed.

Emancipation Act
- Act through which Parliament abolished slavery in colonies.
- August 1st, 1834
- Apprenticeship.
- August 1st, 1838.

“The negros were examined with as little consideration as if they had been
brutes indeed; the buyers pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching
their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up