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| Its very population is a direct result of the African slave trade, European migration, and later immigration from various parts of mostly the British empire, while little is left of the indigenous Arawaks or Caribs. The aboriginal peoples of the island, the Arawaks, were conquered by the Caribs--maritime warriors who raided distant places, capturing the women and holding them as slave-wives and killing the men. This "culture" was so confident, Greenblatt notes, that "it expected perfect strangers--the Arawaks of the Caribbeanto . |
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