Plantations were set up, and people from all over Africa were taken from their homelands and brought to Jamaica as slaves. Slavery was extremely profitable in Jamaica, where the climate allowed for mass plantation agriculture. While some slaves, termed "Maroons" by the Spanish, escaped and found refuge in the mountains, those who were forced to work the plantations were also being forced to adapt to their new environment.
In ,. Mintz states over and again that the societies of the Caribbean do not form an undifferentiated group. The Official languages are French and Creole. Abandoned by the Spaniards, the french gained sovereignty over the western part of the island, Santo Domingo. Every generation has traditions and customs that they hold dearly. A generation begins and ends and as a society they create those traditions.
Slaves and those masters also have customs throughout Generations of Captivity. Throughout the book each generation has a different way of doing things. For example in the Migration Generation chapter it shows how slavery was at an all time high after the Revolutionary War and how slaves were taken from their homes, forced to work for the whites.
Each generation. The slave trade and the use trade such as the triangular trade were very common during this time-period due to the rise in plantations, causing a diverse region in South America. South America throughout the time-period. The Young Lords consisted of both women and men. Black nationalism supports a racial definition of national identity. Blacks wanted independence from European society. The purpose of this movement was to gain economic power and infuse a sense of community among African Americans.
Black nationalists wanted to maintain their separate identity as a people. They wanted to invoke a sense of pride in African Americans. Plantation Society and Creole Society There is a vast range of cultural diversity in the Caribbean today. In this paper, I would be discussing the similarities and differences found between the plantation society model and the Creole society model. According to the book Mustapha , the plantation system played a dominant role in the economic, social, political and cultural life of the Caribbean.
Within the …show more content… the Europeans on the other hand interculterated, which is defined as the exchange of cultural traits between groups in society Mustapha , p. In the Creole and plantation model, blacks were on the lowest ground on the social ladder. In my view I would say that they did not play in any part in decision making. This tradition was characteristically expressed in the work of the late Professor George Beckford of the Department of Economics, Mona, in its breadth of fields within the discipline of economics interpreted in its widest sense, and in the depth of philosophical enquiry.
He pioneered work in quantitative price analysis, agricultural policy and planning, and more generally, economic planning, as well as more broadly in the theory of economic development. He is perhaps best known for his highly original work on the plantation as an institution, which demonstrated that from its traditional position of dominance in the colonial economy, it continued to determine the possibilities of social and economic development in Caribbean societies even after political Independence.
Further, these institutions embodied a hierarchy of race-class relations, which persist in modern Caribbean society. It explained the adjustment processes within this class of economies in response to changes in the terms of trade with the traditional metropolitan economies with which they were historically integrated. Instead, the model of the plantation served as the microeconomic foundations of Plantation Economy, but with a twist. That is, at the same time, as a total institution, it was a microcosm of the whole economy and the whole society.
Beckford was one of the leading thinkers in the New World group. Like his colleagues, the spirit of his work was imbued with originality of conception of the problematic, and often the method of analysis, but always with an inviolable respect for facts. Further, he inspired the network of critical thinkers from a variety of walks of life with his commitment to improving the lives of the ordinary Caribbean people in whose creativity and resilience he was supremely confident.
Indeed, he drew his inspiration from their historic and daily struggles, and he passed this on in his teaching, his discussions and advocacy, and his organization of ideas.
This commitment to a development process which enhances the quality of life of the masses of Caribbean people and the involvement in various ways in the policy formulation process is a distinguishing feature of the critical tradition within Caribbean economic thought.
The patterns of underdevelopment that Beckford and his New World colleagues identified and analyzed are still evident today, though masked by market relations, and justified by the ideology that advocates the supremacy of market forces. Their work is an excellent starting point for understanding current development challenges in the Caribbean, and will carry the current generation of social scientists some ways toward articulating solutions.
New World Journal provides insights into the birth, flourishing and eventual demise of one of the region's most influential intellectual movements.
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