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Pages in category "Caribbean diaspora" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in ...
The Caribbean region was initially populated by Amerindians from several different Kalinago and Taino groups. These groups were decimated by a combination of enslavement and disease brought by European colonizers. Descendants of the Taino and Kalinago tribes exist today in the Caribbean and elsewhere but are usually of partial Amerindian ...
The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people ... Blacks of Caribbean origin are usually denoted as "West Indian ...
Most Afro-Caribbean People are the descendants of captive Africans held in the Caribbean from 1502 to 1886 during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Black people from the Caribbean who have migrated (voluntarily, or by force) to the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa and elsewhere add a significant Diaspora element to Afro-Caribbean history.
The term "diaspora" is derived from the Ancient Greek verb διασπείρω (diaspeirō), "I scatter", "I spread about" which in turn is composed of διά (dia), "between, through, across" and the verb σπείρω (speirō), "I sow, I scatter". The term διασπορά (diaspora) hence meant "scattering". [27]
Trinidadian and Tobagonian diaspora in the United States (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Caribbean diaspora in the United States" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Asian diaspora in the Caribbean (13 C, 3 P) E. European diaspora in the Caribbean (17 C, ...