CARIBBEAN HISTORY
SBA QUESTIONS 2021-2022
THEME 1-THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE EUROPEANS
1.How did the arrival of the Spaniards impact the lives of the Tainos in Hispaniola
between 1492 and 1560 ?
2. How true is it to say that the Mayas were a group of technologically advanced people during
the pre-Columbian Era?
3. To what extent did the Encomienda system contribute to the decline in the Taino population in
Hispaniola between 1492 and 1550?
THEME 2 : CARIBBEAN ECONOMY AND SLAVERY
1. To what extent was the middle passage the most horrific leg of the transatlantic slave Trade
that was conducted by the British between 1713- 1807?
2. What evidence is there to suggest that the sugar Revolution that began in the 1640’s had many
effects on the British West Indies?
3. To what extent is it safe to say that the change from Tobacco to sugar in the English-speaking
Caribbean during the mid to late 1600s was indeed a Revolution?
THEME 3- RESISTANCE AND REVOLT
1. How were the Maroons in Jamaica able to establish successful Maroon communities by the
1730s?
2. In what ways were the Maroons in Jamaica similar to and different from the Bush Negroes in
Suriname during the 18th century?
3. How did women in the British Caribbean effectively resist the system of slavery during the
period 1730-1816?
6. How did Haiti and the Wider Caribbean benefit from the Haitian Revolution of 1789-1804?
7. In what ways were the British Slave laws more inhumane than the Spanish slave laws?
THEME 4: METROPOLITAN MOVEMENTS TOWARDS EMANCIPATION
1. What evidence is there to prove that the Amelioration proposals of 1823 were designed to
reduce the inhumane treatment that was meted out to slaves after the slave trade was
abolished in the British West Indies?
2. How true is it to say that the passing of the Emancipation Act of 1833 in the British West
Indies was aimed at securing a reliable labour force for the planters and not to free the
enslaved?
3. What evidence is there to prove that the stipendiary magistrates could not effectively
monitor the apprenticeship system that was introduced in the British West Indies
territories between 1834-1838?
4. To what extent could we say that the apprenticeship system between 1834-1838 in the
British Caribbean territories was a continuation of slavery?