CARIBBEAN EXAMINATON COUNCIL a) Name FOUR forms of resistance used by enslaved men

CARIBBEAN HISTORY and women in the Caribbean. (4mks) JUNE 2015

Paper 02 b) Outline THREE causes of resistance by enslaved 5. a) Name TWO Caribbean territories where large Maroon
Africans and give ONE example of EACH. (9mks) settlements developed. (2mks)
c) Examine THREE factors that usually prevented the b) State what is meant by the term ‘maritime marronage’.
THEME 3 – Resistance and Revolt enslaved from overthrowing the system of slavery. (2mks)
(12mks) c) Explain THREE factors which contributed to the
JUNE 2018 Total 25mks development of Maroon societies in the Caribbean.
5. a) Give the names of (9mks)
(i) TWO maroon settlements/groups in Jamaica (2mks) d) Discuss THREE measures which the Maroons took to
(ii) TWO maroon groups in Suriname (2mks) 6. a) Identify ONE male and ONE female leader of major 19 th overcome challenges to the development of their
b) Explain THREE characteristics that distinguished Grand century slave revolts in the British Caribbean, and the societies. (12mks)
Marronage from Petite Marronage. (9mks) territories with which these were associated. (4mks) Total 25mks
c) Examine THREE reasons for the successful b) Explain THREE main causes of the Demerara Revolt of
establishment and continued survival of Maroon 1823. (9mks) 6. a) Identify TWO of the social groups in St Domingue in
communities in the Caribbean. Give examples from c) Examine THREE major consequences of the Demerara 1791. (2mks)
either Jamaica or Suriname. (12mks) Revolt of 1823. (12mks) b) Name TWO groups which fought against the
Total 25mks Total 25mks revolutionaries in St Domingue. (2mks)
c) Explain THREE factors which led to the outbreak of the
6. a) Give the names of revolt in St Domingue. (9mks)
(i) TWO parishes that were involved in the 1816 JUNE 2016 d) Discuss THREE factors which led to the success of the
rebellion in Barbados. (2mks) 5. a) List FOUR geographical features which facilitated the revolutionaries by 1804. (12mks)
(ii) TWO leaders involved in the rebellion. (2mks) development of maroon communities in the Caribbean. Total 25mks
b) Explain THREE factors that contributed to the outbreak
of the 1816 rebellion in Barbados. (9mks) (4mks)
c) Examine THREE consequences of the 1816 rebellion in b) Describe THREE features of the origins and growth of JUNE 2014
Barbados. (12mks) maroon communities in Jamaica. (9mks) 5. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the French and Spanish introduced
Total 25mks c) Examine THREE strategies used by maroon slave laws to regulate the lives of enslaved men and women.
communities to overcome the obstacles to their
JUNE 2017 development. (12mks) a) (i) Name TWO Caribbean territories to which the Code
5. There was no natural subservience here. Nobody didn’t bow Total 25mks Noir applied directly. (2mks)
down to nobody just so. To get a man to follow your instructions (ii) Name TWO Caribbean territories to which the Siete
you had to pen him and beat him and cut off his ears or his foot 6. a) (i) Name the leader of the Jamaican rebellion of 1831. Partidas applied directly. (2mks)
when he run away. You had was to take away his woman and his b) Explain THREE reasons why “the French and Spanish
(1mk)
child. And still that fellow stand up and oppose you… introduced slave laws to regulate the lives of enslaved men
(ii) Name THREE religious leaders who were blamed
for the rebellion of 1831. (3mks) and women”. (9mks)
And it wasn’t just men alone. It had women there that was even
b) State THREE causes of the 1831 rebellion in Jamaica. c) Discuss THREE ways in which the British Caribbean
more terrible.
(9mks) planters attempted to control the economic activities of
c) Explain THREE consequences of the 1831 rebellion in enslaved men and women. (12mks)
Earl Lovelace, Salt, New York: Persea Books, 1996, p.6-7.
Jamaica. (12mks) Total 25mks
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6. a) (i) Identify TWO main crops grown in St. Domingue in JUNE 2012 JUNE 2010
1791. (2mks) 5. a) List FOUR different types of methods, other than those 5. Read the extract below, then answer the questions that follow.
(ii) Name TWO social groups in St Domingue in 1789. dictated by law, which were used by the sugar planters to
(2mks) control enslaved Africans on a typical sugar plantation in In some territories, where physical conditions were favorable,
b) Describe THREE ways in which the Haitian revolution the 1700s. (4mks) enslaved Africans often escaped and set up Maroon
affected the Haitian economy. (9mks) b) Describe any THREE of the methods used by sugar communities away from the plantations. The planters distrusted
c) Explain THREE ways in which the wider Caribbean planters to control enslaved Africans on a typical sugar the Maroons and tried to defeat them. This was difficult to
benefitted from the Haitian Revolution. (12mks) plantation in the 1700s. (9mks) achieve since the Maroons were determined to be free of the
Total 25mks c) Explain THREE reasons why these methods of control plantation and enslavement.
did not always succeed. (12mks)
Total 25mks a) Describe THREE ways in which physical conditions
JUNE 2013 favoured the setting up of Maroon communities. (9mks)
5. a) (i) Identify TWO forms of resistance used by captive 6. a) Identify FOUR territories in which major revolts were b) Examine FOUR reasons, other than physical conditions,
Africans during the Middle Passage. (2mks) staged by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean. (4mks) why planters found it difficult to defeat the Maroons.
(ii) Name TWO Caribbean territories where large b) Give THREE reasons for the early success of the 1816 (16mks)
maroon settlements developed. (2mks) revolt. (9mks) Total 25mks
b) Describe THREE strategies used by enslaved women to c) Examine THREE factors which were responsible for the
deprived plantation owners of labour. (9mks) failure of the 1816 revolt. (12mks) 6. Imagine that it is 1804 and you are a French priest
c) Examine THREE ways in which insurrectionary forms Total 25mks stationed in St. Domingue. Write a letter to your Bishop
of resistance by enslaved men and women created explaining why the enslaved Africans succeeded in destroying
problems for plantation owners. (12mks) JUNE 2011 slavery in the island. Total 25mks
Total 25mks 5. a) List TWO examples EACH of insurrectionary and non-
insurrectionary forms of resistance, other than running
6. After thirteen years of struggle, Haiti became the second away. (4mks)
independent state in the first black one. The Haitian Revolution b) Explain THREE reasons why enslaved Africans ran
had far-reaching effects on the Americas. away from the Caribbean sugar plantations. (9mks)
a) Name FOUR leaders of the Haitian revolution (4mks) c) Examine THREE ways in which the sugar plantations
b) Explain ONE way in which the Haitian revolution were affected when enslaved Africans ran away.(12mks)
threatened the United States and TWO ways in which it Total 25mks
benefitted the Caribbean. (9mks)
c) Examine THREE ways in which the long battle for 6. a) Identify FOUR major slave revolts which occurred in the
independence was damaging to the Haitian economy and British Caribbean before the 1831 Jamaica revolt.(4mks)
society. (12mks) b) Explain THREE reasons for the 1831 Jamaica revolt.
Total 25mks (9mks)
c) Examine THREE consequences of the 1831 Jamaica
revolt for both the enslaved Africans and the Jamaica
sugar planters. (12mks)
Total 25mks