slave trade - impact on caribbean

Question 1

why did the Arawak’s and Caribs (native people of the Caribbean die)

Answer 1

Exposure to European diseases they where not immune to such as dysentery and whooping cough.

Question 2

Why did the make up of the population change?

Answer 2

By 1800 90% of the cars ran population was African and slaves out numbered the white population by 20:1

Question 3

Small traditional farms where replaced by large scale plantations

Answer 3

To create plantations land was cleared of its natural plants and habitats where destroyed

Question 4

Sugar, cotton, tobacco and coffee where ‘cash crops’ grown only for profit.

Answer 4

Slaves where not producing goods for there own use and cash crops where taken away by ship to the UK.

Question 5

Caribbean society became hierarchy.

Answer 5

White slave owning men where at the top of society and slaves at the bottom with no rights as written in laws called slave codes.

Question 6

The Caribbean supplied 90% of the sugar consumed in Europe

Answer 6

Jamaica became dependent on the sugar crop and any fall in international price was disastrous