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"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [13] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
The West Indian migration to the modern United States began in the colonial period, when many West Indians were imported as slaves to the British colonies of North America. First people from West Indies who arrived in the United States were slaves brought to South Carolina in the 17th century. [3]
At the time of first contact between Europe and the Americas, the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean included the Taíno of the northern Lesser Antilles, most of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles, the Ciguayo and Macorix of parts of Hispaniola, and the Guanahatabey of western Cuba.
Indo-Caribbean people in the 19th century celebrating the Indian culture in West Indies through dance and music. From 1838 to 1917, over half a million Indians from the former British Raj or British India and Colonial India , were taken to thirteen mainland and island nations in the Caribbean as indentured workers to address the demand for ...
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European origin or descent."
The manner in which the colonial powers introduced Chinese into the West Indies and the socioeconomic roles that they afforded [8] to the migrants would directly affect how the Caribbean Chinese people were imagined and represented in colonial discourse in terms of where they belonged in the West Indies' social, economic and political ...
Black convicts, servants and sailors from the West Indies also arrived in Australia and many of them later integrated into Aboriginal communities. These relationships, and links forged through the sport of boxing, contributed to later alliances between the Black Consciousness Movements in Australia, the USA and the West Indies, including a ...
Indo-Caribbean Americans or Indian-Caribbean Americans or Indo-West Indian American, are Americans who trace their ancestry ultimately to India, though whose recent ancestors lived in the West Indies or Caribbean, where they migrated beginning in 1838 as indentured laborers.