Abstract
The Black Caribs of Central America: A problem in Three-Way of Acculturation
Highlights
The Black Caribs of Central America comprise more or less fifty thousand individuals, of mixed African and American Indian descent, living on the Caribbean Coast of the republics of Honduras and Guatemala, and the colony of British Honduras
The “Red” Caribs were attacked by the Black Caribs
The Black Caribs speak the Carib-Arawak language of the Island Caribs, with numerous words taken from French and Spanish, and some from English
Summary
The Black Caribs of Central America comprise more or less fifty thousand individuals, of mixed African and American Indian descent, living on the Caribbean Coast of the republics of Honduras and Guatemala, and the colony of British Honduras. By the close of the century, there were two groups in St. Vincent: the “Red” or “Yellow” Caribs, and the Black Caribs, always at war with each other and with the English and French planters, continuously forming and breaking precarious alliances. He must have been a man of unusual talents, for, with the help of almost no French troops, he organized popular armies in the islands and waged war on the British.
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