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    to the play is a Barbados slave by the name of Tituba. Tituba is a compelling fictional character because, as a historical figure, she played an important role in the (Salem Witch) Trials. Tituba is an intriguing figure because she was the first to be accused of witchcraft in Salem. Because of her status as Rev. Parris’s slave, Tituba was often blamed for misfortunes. In Miller’s play, she is not surprised when Parris’s niece, Abigail Williams, claims that she was using Barbados magic to conjure…

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    Cecil Foster Summary

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    academic named Cecil Foster, specifically spoke about multiculturalism, race, immigration, and ethnicity. Foster originally came from Barbados and later emigrated to Toronto, Canada where he flourished as a public intellectual. Before moving to Canada, he already worked in Barbados as a news broadcaster and editor with the Caribbean News Agency (CANA) and Barbados Advocate-News. Eventually, his journey in broadcasting triumphed through several media branches in Canada, including Toronto Star,…

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    What is a tourism organisation? According to The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979), a tourism organisation is a commercial or non-commercial establishment, such as a company, bureau, or agency, which organizes and conducts tourist trips. In other words, it is governmental association, union, or other organized group that promotes both domestic and international tourism. The tourism organizations consist of international, national, and regional organizations that help develop and manage tourism.…

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    “Virginia’s slave society developed within an Atlantic context,” and how other countries influenced the colonies use of slaves. One of the main countries that Hatfield studies in this essay is Barbados because they influenced the Americas the most. “Between 1648 and 1658 twenty four hundred Europeans left Barbados for Virginia and Surinam” and because those numbers are quite large, it calls into question were the colonies forced into becoming a place of slavery or did they choose…

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    crops such as tobacco, cotton, ginger, and indigo, but were unsuccessful. Over time, they learned which crops would grow successfully in their region. After much trial and error, tobacco became the right plant to grow for Chesapeake and sugar for Barbados. Tobacco exports to England became the main source of income from Virginia and Maryland. Between 1660 and 1760 tobacco exports increased each decade. Along…

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    birds. She is from Barbados and isn't meant to live in Connecticut, and Jamaican tropical birds aren't meant to live in Connecticut either. Kit wears fancy dresses, and brings a lot of other sumptuous clothing…

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    Selina is about ten years old up to when she is in her early twenties and it is told from a third person point of view. Selina lives with her family that consists of her mother, father, and her older sister. Both of Selina’s Parents originate from Barbados and are immigrants that came to the U.S. pursuing the “American Dream”. Selina’s mother, Silla, and her father, Deighton, have a very interesting relationship and both want to do the opposite of what the other one wants to do and go to pretty…

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    taken from Africa to Barbados, sent to Virginia, served in the British navy and lastly sold to a Quaker merchant. After Equiano purchased his freedom he worked to abolish the slave trade. Equiano provides us with the perspective of an African slave during the American Revolution however his account does not provide us with the experiences of other voices, we can look into other sources for that information.…

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    Tobacco In America Essay

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    Perhaps the most valuable region was the West Indies. The islands were great sources of many products that struggled or flat out could not be grown domestically. but one of the most notable was Barbados. Barbados exported many products. Among these included sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, aloes, slaves, fish, and cotton. (My) The most critical of these being sugar. Sugar was important at the time because the Brits consumed a large amount of tea…

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