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Carib
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Car·ib  (krb)
n. pl. Carib or Car·ibs
1. also Car·i·ban (kr-bn, k-rbn) A member of a group of American Indian peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the eastern coast of Central America.
2. Any of the languages of the Carib.
[Spanish Caribe, from earlier Carib karibna, person, Carib.]
Carib adj.
Carib [ˈkærɪb]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -ibs, -ib a member of a group of American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the family of languages spoken by these peoples
[from Spanish Caribe, from Arawak]
Cariban  adj
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Noun1.CaribCarib - a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
Carib Indian
Amerindian, Native American - any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
2.Carib - the family of languages spoken by the Carib
Caribbean language
American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians


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This counter-intuitive association between the increasing centrality of slave plantations to the local economies and a decline in the most extreme antiblack stereotyping can be explained by the missionaries' shifting focus from the recalcitrant native Caribs to the enslaved Afro-creole labor force.
"A nation born to slavery": missionaries and racial discourse in ... by Peabody, Sue / Journal of Social History
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.
Sugarcane as History in Paule Marshall's "To Da-Duh, in Memoriam" by Japtok, Martin / African American Review
Caribs are just extending that bill specialization to gender, he observes.
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