Different Caribbeans Part II
How the region's population changed.
Read the first part of this series here.
The colonists took the Caribbean and divided it as loot, changing the behaviors and language of the native population; they imposed customs through violence in order to benefit their respective empires. As Aimé Césaire writes in Discourse on Colonialism, “... colonization works to decivilize ... to degrade.”
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