The Greater Antilles: Are composed of four northernmost large islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. 2. ... Jamaica lies in the center of the Caribbean Sea, 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles west of Hispaniola. ... Columbus spent the next week exploring various bays and coves and making contact with the Arawaks whom he described as appearing "less peaceful" then the inhabitants of Cuba. ... Unfortunately, the policies of the Spanish government served to steadily reduce the Arawak population, and by the early 1600s it had virtually disappeared. The Spanish government foun...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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