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Afro-Caribbean history, the Glossary

For a history of Afro-Caribbean people in the UK, see British African Caribbean community. Afro-Caribbean history (or African-Caribbean history) is the portion of Caribbean history that specifically discusses the Afro-Caribbean or Black racial (or ethnic) populations of the Caribbean region.^[1]

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African diaspora history
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African diaspora

The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas.

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Afro-Caribbean music

Afro-Caribbean music is a broad term for music styles originating in the Caribbean from the African diaspora.

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Afro-Caribbean people

Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.

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Aimé Césaire

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone Martinican poet, author, and politician.

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Andrew Holness

Andrew Michael Holness, (born 22 July 1972) is a Jamaican politician, who has been the prime minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, following the 2016 Jamaican general election.

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Antonio Maceo

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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (January 24, 1874 – June 10, 1938), was a historian, writer, bibliophile, collector, and activist.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. Afro-Caribbean history and Atlantic slave trade are history of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Baptist War

The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica.

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Bebo Valdés

Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro (October 9, 1918 – March 22, 2013), better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger.

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Bert Williams

Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 – March 4, 1922) was a Bahamian-born American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time.

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Black people

Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.

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Black power

Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Brian Lara

Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

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British African-Caribbean people

British Afro-Caribbean people or British Black Caribbean people an ethnic group in the United Kingdom.

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Bussa's rebellion

Bussa's rebellion (14–16 April 1816) was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history.

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C. L. R. James

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989),Fraser, C. Gerald,, The New York Times, 2 June 1989.

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Carlos Acosta

Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada (born 2 June 1973) is a Cuban-British ballet director and retired dancer who is director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

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Celia Cruz

Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century.

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Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (25 December 17459 June 1799) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier.

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Chinese people

The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. Afro-Caribbean history and Christopher Columbus are history of the Caribbean.

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Creole peoples

Creole peoples may refer to various ethnic groups around the world. Afro-Caribbean history and Creole peoples are African diaspora history.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Demographics of Africa

The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.

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Dutty Boukman

Dutty Boukman (or Boukman Dutty; died 7 November 1791) was an early leader of the Haitian Revolution.

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Eric Williams

Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician.

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Eugenia Charles

Mary Eugenia Charles (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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First Maroon War

The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740.

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Forbes Burnham

Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham (20 February 1923 – 6 August 1985) was a Guyanese politician and the leader of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana from 1964 until his death in 1985.

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François Duvalier

François Duvalier (14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician who served as the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.

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Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580.

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Francisco del Rosario Sánchez

Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (9 March 1817 – 4 July 1861) was a Dominican revolutionary, politician, and former president of the Dominican Republic.

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Frank Bowling

Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling (Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling; born 26 February 1934), known as Frank Bowling, is a British artist who was born in British Guiana.

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Frantz Fanon

Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department).

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French West Indies

The French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises,; Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean.

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Grantley Herbert Adams

Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC (28 April 1898 – 28 November 1971) was a Barbadian politician.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.

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Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henri Christophe

Henri Christophe (6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820) was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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History of Cuba

The island of Cuba was inhabited by various Amerindian cultures prior to the arrival of the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492.

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History of Haiti

The recorded history of Haiti began in 1492, when the European captain and explorer Christopher Columbus landed on a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

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History of Jamaica

The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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History of the Caribbean

The history of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers since the 15th century. Afro-Caribbean history and history of the Caribbean are African diaspora history, history of North America, history of the Americas and history of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president.

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Jean-Claude Duvalier

Jean-Claude Duvalier (3 July 19514 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (Bébé Doc, Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian politician who was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986.

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin;; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, and leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.

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John Barnes

John Charles Bryan Barnes (born 7 November 1963) is a former professional football player and manager.

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John Hawkins (naval commander)

Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader.

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Joseph Robert Love

Joseph Robert Love, known as Dr.

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Juan Almeida Bosque

Juan Almeida Bosque (17 February 1927 – 11 September 2009) was a Cuban politician and one of the original commanders of the insurgent forces in the Cuban Revolution.

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Julien Fédon

Julien Fédon (? – 1796?), also called Julien Fedon, Foedonn, Feydn, and Fidon, was the leader of the Fédon Rebellion, a revolt against British rule led primarily by free mixed-race French-speakers that took place in Grenada between 2 March 1795 and 19 June 1796.

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Lynden Pindling

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, PC, NH, JP (22 March 193026 August 2000) was a Bahamian politician who is regarded by some as the "Father of the Nation", having led the Bahamas to majority rule and independence.

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Manumission

Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners.

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist.

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Maroons

Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements.

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Martinique

Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Mary Seacole

Mary Jane Seacole (Anionwu, E. N. (2012), Mary Seacole: nursing care in many lands. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants 6(5), pp. 244–248 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman.

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Michael Manley

Michael Norman Manley (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992.

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Nanny of the Maroons

Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist.

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Ottobah Cugoano

Ottobah Cugoano (–), also known as John Stuart, was a British abolitionist and activist who was born in West Africa.

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Paul Bogle

Paul Bogle (1822 – 24 October 1865)Dugdale-Pointon, T.,. Military History Encyclopedia good on the Web, 22 September 2008.

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Pedro Albizu Campos

Pedro Albizu Campos (June 29, 1893Luis Fortuño Janeiro. Album Histórico de Ponce (1692–1963). p. 290. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta Fortuño. 1963. – April 21, 1965) was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and a leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement.

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Pedro Alonso Niño

Pedro Alonso Niño (c. 1455 – c. 1505) was a Afro-Spanish explorer during the 15th century.

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Peter Fryer

Peter Fryer (18 February 1927 – 31 October 2006), Spartacus Educational.

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Portia Simpson-Miller

Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller (born 12 December 1945) is a Jamaican former politician.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer and businesswoman.

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Sam Hinds

Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds (born 27 December 1943) is a Guyanese politician who was Prime Minister of Guyana almost continuously from 1992 to 2015.

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Samuel Sharpe

Samuel Sharpe, or Sharp (1801 – 23 May 1832), also known as Sam Sharpe, was an enslaved Jamaican who was the leader of the widespread 1831–32 Baptist War slave rebellion (also known as the Christmas Rebellion) in Jamaica.

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Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian–American actor, film director, and diplomat.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain

Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain is a book written by Peter Fryer that is considered a definitive history of the Black presence in Britain, beginning with the Roman conquest.

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Stephen D. Behrendt

Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade.

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Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement.

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Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)

Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.

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Taíno

The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.

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The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is a 1938 book by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, a history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804. Afro-Caribbean history and the Black Jacobins are history of the Caribbean.

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Toussaint Louverture

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey. Afro-Caribbean history and Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League are African diaspora history.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Caribbean_history

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, Hispaniola, History of Cuba, History of Haiti, History of Jamaica, History of slavery, History of the Caribbean, Jamaica, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, John Barnes, John Hawkins (naval commander), Joseph Robert Love, Juan Almeida Bosque, Julien Fédon, Lynden Pindling, Manumission, Marcus Garvey, Maroons, Martinique, Mary Seacole, Michael Manley, Nanny of the Maroons, Napoleon, Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cugoano, Paul Bogle, Pedro Albizu Campos, Pedro Alonso Niño, Peter Fryer, Portia Simpson-Miller, Rastafari, Reggae, Rihanna, Sam Hinds, Samuel Sharpe, Sidney Poitier, Sierra Leone, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, Stephen D. Behrendt, Stokely Carmichael, Stuart Hall (cultural theorist), Taíno, The Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, Trinidad and Tobago, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Walter Rodney, West Indian, White people.

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See also

African diaspora history

History of North America

History of the Americas

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