The African transported to Caribbean Island

When the Genoese sailor Christopher Columbus traveled to the Caribbean in 1492, it took the process of colonialism, which led to profound changes in world history began. Columbus was looking for the western sea route from Europe to South and East Asia, and found instead a world unknown to Europeans. His four voyages across the Atlantic, which he carried out on behalf of the Spanish crown, 1492-1502, ended on the geographically isolated double continent of America. Columbus' voyages of discovery in the Western Hemisphere tours followed the conquest of the Spaniards who subdued despite its clear numerical inferiority of once-mighty empires, and even completely wiped out. Within a generation, a large number of Native Americans had succumbed to diseases that had been introduced by Europeans to America. The Native Americans had no natural defenses against these diseases and dying in large numbers, many who survived, were killed in battle - defeat of the Spanish military technology that was superior to the weapons of the American aborigines (Gowricharn, pp. 67). Thus began the colonization across the Atlantic, the starting point for the global colonialism was.

No region is suitable for the investigation of the colonization process better than the Caribbean islands. Here was the colonization of foreign territories by Europeans, which should be characteristic for the modern age began. And through this region, several European nations gain valuable experiences in terms of the colonization process. These experiences, she turned to other parts of the world, in particular in Asia and Africa, 19th Century. From 1492 until the second half of the 19th Century, when slavery was abolished in most parts of America, made by the Caribbean a profound change (Henke and Fred, pp. 34). Many speeches abolitionists, emanating mainly from the cradle of scientific and technical development at that time, England, mixed with romance trimmed just claims to disguise the true economic interests of the abolitionists. Although slavery was abolished in Haiti and Santo Domingo after the first revolution of independence of Latin America and in 1807, slave ships were forbidden to assemble in the British colonies and introduce slaves a year later, traffic was stopped souls. The 1492 completely isolated from other continents Caribbean islands became increasingly more involved in a global economy spanning the Atlantic and won for them an ever more important.

Initial phase

The initial phase began in 1492 with Columbus' first voyage to America and ended in the mid-17th Century. At that time the European economy was characterized by mercantilism. One of the central tenets of mercantilism was that represent gold and silver (in ingots), the measure of prosperity and that there are only a limited amount of it on the world. If the Spanish crown would be in possession of all precious metals produced in America, could no longer compete with other European countries Spain (Heuman, pp. 100).

Those natives who had survived the epidemic waves, welcomed the attacks of pirates on the Spanish, who brought disease and destruction to America had. In addition, supported ...