Indies

resentment on the side of the colonists in the West Indies and America. They had huge financial disadvantages, because of the Sugar Act. Many agreed that the effect of the Sugar Act was detrimental to all the colonies. Revolts and uprisings occurred as the seeds of dissension were sown and widespread. In terms of the colonist’s reaction to the Sugar Act, Colonial America was on the brink of revolt, but the sugar laws were more heavily enforced in the West Indies and more meticulously imposed.…

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From the 1770s onwards the West Indies were becoming less important because Cuba and Brazil could produce cheaper sugar. Many of the plantations in the West Indies were closed down and the demand for slaves fell. For example, in 1771 Barbados imported 2728 slaves but one year later they imported none. If this was the case the decision to abolish slavery would have been easier as it was no longer needed and was slowly dying out. Furthermore plantation owners had to pay a substantial amount of…

break away and become independent from England. The war would’ve changed drastically if France didn’t side with America. While America really needed France for support at the end of the war, France also really needed America to protect their West Indies, and they needed an ally after just losing the French and Indian war. There was…

Shemilt and Gheerbrant write, “Once West Indies were the dominant force in the five-day game - famously going 15 years without losing a Test series from 1980-95. Now, with the best players preferring to play in T20 competitions around the globe, the team - ranked eighth in Tests - appears further than ever from touching those heights, and crowds are at an all-time low.” Before big money was a part of cricket, the West Indies were on top of the test cricket world. Few could challenge…

highlight specific moments in his life to help the reader understand this story of “transatlantic bigamy.” Some of the events they focus on are his remarriage in the new world, his return to Spain and is put on trial for Bigamy, and his life in the Indies before his remarriage. They then connect how these specific events relate back to letters that Noguerol received from his sisters back in Spain. These events are important in understanding the importance of the content of the letters…

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“From 1500 to 1860 it is estimated that around 12 million enslaved Africans were traded to the Americas.” With the rise of cash crops, a workforce was needed to efficiently harvest the tobacco, indigo, and rice on large plantations in the south. Eventually, the answer to the labor shortage was enslaving Africans. Slavery in America had become a necessity due to the large economic gains from the transatlantic slave trade, as well as the triangular trade. In 1612, John Rolfe of Jamestown…

through a display of talents as well as the conversion of idolaters that they happened to find. The conquistadors’ apparent loyalty to the crown was a guise in which the conquistadors used to make themselves the benefactors of their discovery of the Indies. To begin with, the conquistadors who participated in the Spanish conquest believed that they should reap some benefit. A conquistador by the name of Diaz claimed that because of incredibly valuable services they had rendered, “...we should…

Racism has affected people of color for hundreds of years. Racism is a large, systemic, social process and colorism is a manifestation of it. Colorism manifested from the power of systematic racism and has evolved over hundreds of years around the world where it affects people of color financially, socially, mentally, and physically. Colorism is discrimination that privileges light skinned people of color over the dark skinned counter parts of the same race. Herring (2004) also defines…