Impact of the AST on the Caribbean Flashcards
The native population…
the arawaks died out due to disease and overwork as a result of the european colonisation and clearing the islands for sugar plantations
In their place large numbers of…
Enslaved africans were brought to the Caribbean eventually creating an imbalanced population of 20 africans to every 1 white slave owner or overseer with no social mobility
The population imbalance led slave owners to…
Fear revolt, and a harsh set of laws and punishments were introduced to help keep enslaved africans under control , which had a brutalising affect on society
On one island the french plantation colony of…
Saint-dominigue the enslaved africans rose up in rebellion and set up a free independant country which they called Haiti. This intensified the fears among slave owners on other c islands that they would also be overthrown if they did not maintain harsh discipline on their plantations
The c islands became…
over-dependant on sugar production. This meant that, every time worldwide sugar prices dropped, the c economy would suffer a dramatic downturn.
The intensive farming required for…
Sugar production also exhausted the c soil and made it difficult to grow other crops there.
After the ST, and then later slavery was…
Abolished a long term legacy of racial tension and a bad feeling Africans and Europeans continued on through the 19th and 20th century.
