White Caribbean people

White Caribbean or European Caribbean is the term for people who are born in the Caribbean whose ancestors are from Europe or people who emigrated to the Caribbean from Europe and had acquired citizenship in their respective Caribbean countries.

The first Europeans to arrive in the Caribbean were Spaniards who discovered Hispaniola. Many whites came to the Caribbean during the colonial era. Some white Caribbean people descend from Indentured servants transported from Ireland and to a lesser extent other European countries, where they worked on tobacco and cotton plantations. Some of them were political prisoners and criminals, especially in Barbados.

History

Columbus greeted by Arawak Indians

The Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean were exterminated by white colonists. The initial tribe that the Spanish colonizers and Christopher Columbus came across in the Caribbean was the Taíno tribe. European colonizers transported Africans to the Caribbean following the genocide of the Indigenous population. In the Caribbean, black slaves were owned by white individuals. The European powers that colonized the Caribbean included Spain, England, the Netherlands, and France.

White Caribbean people include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century.
  2. ↑ Kempadoo, Kamala (2017-09-21). "'Bound Coolies' and Other Indentured Workers in the Caribbean: Implications for debates about human trafficking and modern slavery". Anti-Trafficking Review (9): 48–63. doi:10.14197/atr.20121794. ISSN 2287-0113.
  3. ↑ "On Indigenous Peoples' Day, meet the survivors of a 'paper genocide".
  4. ↑ "Who Were the Taíno, the Original Inhabitants of Columbus' Island Colonies?".
  5. ↑ "Slavery in the Caribbean".
  6. ↑ "The Caribbean".
  7. ↑ A Concise History of the Caribbean.
  8. ↑ "CHAPTER 12: THE CARIBBEAN: INTRODUCING THE REGION".