Religion, resistance and adaptation in Tobago - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Dr Rita Pemberton While a high value was placed on African labour for the successful operations of plantations in the Caribbean, the Africans were considered subhuman savages with undesirable cultural practices and unacceptable pagan religious. Hence, a threefold argument was articulated as justification for the existence and brutalities of the system of enslavement. First it
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