ANT204H1 Lecture : AIDS and Haiti I - May 26 (L03)
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Taino: the indigenous people of the caribbean, now extinct because of colonial interference: pureblood tainos are extinct, some belief that taino blood continued on within mestizos (half-blood) Hispaniola: the name given to the island now split as haiti and dominican rep. by the. Creole: the language spoken by haitians, and other caribbean people. Spain has claimed the island since the late 15th c. , when columbus landed, and it exploited the island for its resources. They imported african slaves as workers into haiti because by the 16th c. , the tainos, because of foreign diseases, intermarriage and forced labour, became virtually extinct. Spain later ceded haiti to france in the late 17th c. France turned haiti into their richest colony sugar plantations and coffee farms. Hierarchy = frenchmen > affranchis (mulatos children of frenchmen and slavewomen) > slaves. 1804: haiti became the first independent (black) colony: political threat to the europeans, esp. Americans who were pro-slavery: independence was fought for slave uprising.