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Carib

Member of a group of American Indian people of the north coast of South America and the islands of the southern West Indies in the Caribbean. Those who moved north to take the islands from the Arawak Indians were alleged by the conquering Spaniards to be fierce cannibals. In 1796, the English in the West Indies deported most of them to Roatan Island, off Honduras. Carib languages belong to the Ge-Pano-Carib family.



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This counter-intuitive association between the increasing centrality of slave plantations to the local economies and a decline in the most extreme antiblack stereotyping can be explained by the missionaries' shifting focus from the recalcitrant native Caribs to the enslaved Afro-creole labor force.
"A nation born to slavery": missionaries and racial discourse in ... by Peabody, Sue / Journal of Social History
Its very population is a direct result of the African slave trade, European migration, and later immigration from various parts of mostly the British empire, while little is left of the indigenous Arawaks or Caribs.
Sugarcane as History in Paule Marshall's "To Da-Duh, in Memoriam" by Japtok, Martin / African American Review
Caribs are just extending that bill specialization to gender, he observes.
Flowers, not flirting, make sexes differ by Milius, S. / Science News
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