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1.Describe the various ways in which oppressed peoples have resisted colonialism in the Caribbean from both a micro - (individual) and macro- (societal) level perspective.

Since the dawn of time, Europeans roamed the sea searching for new land and more opportunities, even before Christopher Columbus ever set foot in the Caribbean.
The Europeans powers were very eager to expand their wealth and find new ways of accumulating more lands and resources. So when Christopher Columbus discovered the so-called new world sponsored by King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, he tried to take full advantage of the indigenous people by making them look for gold and taking them away from their own responsibilities. With the abundance of land in the Caribbean, Europeans were not satisfied with the existing numbers of workers, and therefore in order to exploit the land to its fullest they had to bring more labour to the Caribbean. So they enforced Africans to come to the new World, where they had to work under the slavery system.
This is how the Slave trade and an era of 500 years of colonialism, enslavement, and oppression started.
With the accumulat...

Posted by: Jack Drewes

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