UNIT ONE: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE ATLANTIC

WORLD
MODULE ONE: INDEGENOUS SOCIETIES

THEME ONE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

Compare two indigenous groups, one from each of the following categories:-

Category one Aztec, Inca, Maya

Category two kalinago, Taino, Tupi

NB comparing the social, economic, political

THEME TWO INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES

Contacts before 1492
Evidence of West African and Nordic movements in the Americas
European and West African contacts

Spanish settlements in the Caribbean up to 1600 and mainland conquest in Mexico and Peru
up to 1550

Emphasis should be placed on econ activities, morality, encomienda, slavery, resistance

and warfare

Books ; The Spanish Caribbean by K. Andrews (1987) black hardcover book with no writing
on the covers

The Tainos by I. Rouse (1992) black book with alien kinda skull on it with the tainos in
capitalized white words, all other writing in orange

Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World by Shepard and H. Beckles (2000)

They came before Columbus by I. Van Sertima (1977) book white with a weird kinda skull thing
MODULE TWO : SLAVE SYSTEMS; CHARACTER AND
DISMANTLEMENT
THEME THREE ; EXPERIENCES AND STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL OF
ENSLAVED PEOPLE
Demography, family, gender, reproduction, mortality
Economic cultures: huckstering, food production and marketing, susu, partner, boxhand.
Characteristics of slave systems and other systems of unfree labour in the Caribbean.
(i) Chattel slavery.
(ii) European indentureship.

THEME FOUR: DISINTEGRATION OF SLAVE SYSTEMS

(a) Factors responsible for the disintegration of slave systems

Rebellions: - Analysis of ONE of the following anti-slavery rebellions: Berbice 1763;

Barbados 1816; Virginia 1831; Jamaica 1831- 1832. - Causes, organisation, suppression,
consequences and role of gender. We are doing Jamaica
The Haitian Revolution, 1791 - 1804: factors contributing to its success.
Other strategies of resistance (for example, marronage and non-violent resistance).
Debate on Decline Thesis.
Abolitionist movements in Europe: Ideology and Strategies.

(b) Final dismantlement of the slave systems, 1807 - 1886

The abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Trade in Africans.
The passing of Emancipation Acts (British or French or Spanish).
MODULE 3: FREEDOM IN ACTION

THEME FIVE: TRANSFORMATIONS IN CARIBBEAN SOCIETIES TO

1900
Popular protests and enfranchisement
Labour Protest: Analyse the causes and consequences of ONE of the following:
1862 Labour protest in St. Vincent;
1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica; WE ARE DOING THIS REBELLION
1876 Confederation Riots in Barbados.
Peasantry: Economic activities and contributions of the freed people to the development
of society

Chinese, Indians and Portuguese: Settlement and Citizenship.

Social and Economic experiences (for example, indentureship and postindentureship
activities).
Resistance.

THEME SIX: NATIONALISM AND NATION BUILDING

(a) Haiti 1804 1825
Social and economic reconstruction.
International relations.

b) Cuban Revolution: regional and international impact 1959 - 1983

Fidel Castros rise to power.
Cubas Socialist transformation up to 1970.
Regional and international impact up to United States invasion of Grenada in 1983.

(c) Independence, assimilation and integration movements in the British and French-
colonized Caribbean
Nationalism since the 1930s.
Integration movements: Federation, CARIFTA, CARICOM.
French Departments.