Caribbean

Slavery, and The Bahamas Piracy, the swashbuckling shipmates of old. There are many accounts of piracy; some from merchant sources, others from the nations themselves. But one thing stands tall: Piracy had an effect on The Bahamas (and the wider Caribbean as well). In this paper, I attempt to explore the connections between piracy and The Bahamas - whether they be economical, social or political. The Beginnings of Atlantic Piracy: Piracy existed since the rediscovery of the Bahamas (and the…

In comparison with other European colonial powers the English colonialisms is a late one. While the Spaniards had already established vast colonial areas throughout Middle and South America, and the Portuguese had a flowering trade in the eastern hemisphere in the Indian Ocean and even with Japan (Bitterli 52-69), the English only succeeded in settling down on the North American Coast in Jamestown in 1607 and on the Lesser Antilles only in the 1620s and 1630s (Sheridan, 394). These little…

America, The Caribbean Basin, Northern Andes, Brazil, and Southern South America. Whereas North America is made up of two Countries: Canada and the United States. Due to how close they are to each other there are some similarities, but don’t be fooled these two regions are very different. Latin America has a very wide range of population. The majority of their population are in big cities. Countries like Mexico and Brazil are population giants compared to countries in the Caribbean basin, with…

Haiti is one of a Caribbean island. Haiti shares an island with Dominican Republic a Hispanic island. Haiti had at least 1.5 million people that left the country because how the government is set up. Haiti is a unique country because of their population and their sport, Soccer. Haiti Culture is one of the most importance’s in Caribbean Island. It has festivals, Carnival, Mardi gras, Haitian music, floats, showcase and more. In Haiti’s Artistic they use light colors which makes it native in…

This protection status will cease on July 20th, 2019. The U.S has to make a decision, on what to do with the Haitians after their TPS expires. A solution I propose to this problem is that United States should should distribute the Haitians to the Caribbean countries, that are allies to the U.S. Bill Nelson a senator from Florida, tweets on the United States current dilemma: “There is no reason to send 60,000 Haitians back to a country that cannot provide for them” (Nelson, 2017). Haiti is…

temperatures are climbing and sea levels are rising. Climate change is considered to be one of the biggest threats to nature and humanity towards “Caribbean Small Island Developing States” because it can bring about negative and destructive effects caused by short lived and long lived climatic forces. Mostly likely…

oppressive system weighing down on him, Fisheye resorts to beating his son because of the different stresses that come as a result of this system. T.R Deepak in his essay, An Evaluation of Caribbean Postcolonial Culture in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance supports this idea stating, “In this way the Caribbean history shows light on the tragic history of slavery, indentured labour and racial miscegenation” (Deepak 198). The ideas and values of the people in this area at this time are very…

Woodes Rogers was certainly one of the most notable persons that have ever lived in the Caribbean. This Englishman had two big obligations in his life. At first, he was a privateer and later became the first governor of Bahamas. In both duties, his main targets were the pirates . Woodes Rogers took a great part in suppressing pirates in most of the Caribbean Sea . Most of them took his offer of King's amnesty. However, even the bravest pirates, who opposed, ended their careers afterwards, most…

1600 they knew they could make large profits from the new found land. Most of them were involved in farming, mainly sugarcane. The king of Spain who knew of the slave trade in Africa, brought some slaves that were meant for Europe to Brazil and the Caribbean. They enslaved the Africans for their labor. One factor that could contribute to the rise of slavery in the Americans was, there were thousands of miles of land that was taken from the Native Americans that was not being used, and…

Many fascinating narratives and historiographies about the transatlantic slave trade exist in the realm of academic historical literature. True tales and stories of forced migration from the motherland of Africa, the trek through the middle passage and the horrifying events after the arrival of African slaves to the many coasts of the new world saturate academia. While these narratives and research take their rightful place in history, there is still so much left to uncover and discover. An…