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CARIBBEAN
PEOPLE
RESPOND TO
OPPRESSION?
OPPRESSION
Oppression is the
experience of repeated,
widespread, systemic
injustice. It need not be
extreme and involve the
legal system (as in
slavery, apartheid, or
What Really
happened
Between
1662 and 1807, Britain
shipped 3.1 million Africans across
the Atlantic ocean in the
transatlantic slave trade. Africans
were forcibly brought to British
owned colonies in the Caribbean
and sold as slaves to work on
plantations. Those engaged in the
trade driven by the huge financial
gain to be made both in the
Caribbean and at home in Britain.
Slaves Being
Punished
There were
three ways in
which they
resisted
oppression
Non-violent
Resistance
They refused
to work
They evade work
They deliberately lose their
tools
They behaved like they did not
understand instructions given
to them by their masters
They made songs to mimicked
the masters lifestyle
They committed suicide
Marronage
They ran away from
the European society
They waged war in the
form of a attacks,
raids and inspiring
rebellion on estates
Violent Resistance
Paul Bogle
Sam Sharpe
Sam Sharpe told the slaves
to sit down and do no work
until they were paid. He
said he never wanted them
to fight, many slaves
followed Sharpes plan. He
believed that all slaves
should be freed.
George William
Gordon
Today
Caribbean people today
continue to resist oppression
through music and song
reggae and similar
movements in Jamaica music
orientated among the poor
and oppressed and so too did
the Steel band and Calypso in
Trinidad and Tobago.