The African slaves
Europeans brought African slaves to Caribbean
A revolt by African slaves in the Caribbean against French colonists.
They worked on the production of Sugar.
Brazil; the Caribbean
Descendants of European planters and African slaves are often referred to as Creoles in some regions such as the Caribbean and Louisiana.
A revolt by African slaves in the Caribbean against French Colonists.
Ten years
African cultural forms in the Caribbean were strictly prohibited and was outlawed by governments in all Caribbean society. Those (slaves) who continued to practice them would face severe punishments.
The majority of African slaves were sent to the Americas, particularly to regions in the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Southern United States, to work on plantations producing labor-intensive crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton.
The first African slaves used by Europeans were used by the Portuguese, on the island of Sao Tome, to grow sugarcane. The Spanish were the first to use African slaves in the Americas (in the Caribbean), and the first English colony to use African slaves was Jamestown, Virginia (which was the first English colony in the New World). However, long before Europeans used African slaves, the Africans had slaves who were African!
The Garafuna are descended from slaves that were shipwrecked on