The Englishman Sir Walter Raleigh, when in search of the mythical city of riches,El Dorado,explored the heavily forested country of Guyana in 1595. In the middle 1600s a large number of Dutch settlers moved into the country and began cultivating sugar to export. ...
Argentinians of African descent—Afro-descendants—numbered some hundred and fifty thousand in the 2010 census. Africans first came to Argentina as slaves in Spanish colonial times, and many mixed with Europeans and Indigenous people. In recent times, Africans have continued to emigrate from a range...
Common heritage and language, rather than geographical boundaries, unite the Garifuna people of Central America. They are the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery in the seventeenth century and intermarried with Caribs living in the eastern Caribbean Island area. Garifuna (ga-RIF-una) refers ...
Explorers of the Nile The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventureby Tim Jeal A“highly enjoyable” account of six men, and one woman, who journeyed into uncharted and treacherous African terrain to find the source of the White Nile ( The Washington Post ). Nothing obsessed explorers...
Justification of Slavery Africans "naturally-suited" for heavy labor. French Guyana colony after it failed without slaves. Slave revolts in Jamaica that helped justify slavery for white people who were threatened by revolt. Gave them inhumane deaths and public humiliation. Economic Growth of UK Want...
These increases are the result of significant inflows of migrants from Guyana, Dominica, and the Dominican Republic. Migrants from the latter have given rise to a small Spanish-speaking community on Antigua. Linguistic Affiliation. Given the creole nature of its culture, it is not surprising ...
The first Black Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619 and were initially treated as indentured laborers with the same rights as white people. But the passage oflaws that treated Black people as property, rather than as people—which happened in Massachusetts in 1641, when its legislature legalized...
Spanish conquistadors took enslaved Africans to the Caribbean after 1502, but Portuguese merchants continued to dominate the transatlantic slave trade for another century and a half, operating from their bases in the Congo-Angola area along the west coast of Africa. The Dutch became the foremost… ...
Born:January 9, 1935, Georgetown, Guyana Died:May 25, 2009, New Jersey, USA Notable Works: They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America(1976) African Presence in Early America(1985) The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality(1972) ...
To meet the demand for labor, European settlers would turn to the slave trade, which resulted in the forced migration of some 12.5 million Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries. Syphilis and the Columbian Exchange Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Medical treatment of syphilis,...