Browsing College of Arts and Science by Subject "Caribbean"

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    • A Brief History of Piracy in the Caribbean: 1500-1730 
      Doster, Stephen (Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)
      Piracy in the Caribbean can be segmented into five distinct overlapping eras, which this paper will examine: the French Corsairs, 1500-1559 the Elizabethans, 1558-1603 the Dutch Sea Rovers, 1570-1648 the Buccaneers ...
    • Singing for Strength: Enslaved Africans and Community Building in the Transatlantic Slave Trade 
      Moore, J. Hunter (Vanderbilt Universityhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2009-04)
      Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
    • Speleothem Paleoclimatology for the Caribbean, Central America, and North America 
      Oster, Jessica L.; Warken, Sophie E.; Sekhon, Natasha; Arienzo, Monica M.; Lachniet, Matthew (Quaternary, 2019-03)
      Speleothem oxygen isotope records from the Caribbean, Central, and North America reveal climatic controls that include orbital variation, deglacial forcing related to ocean circulation and ice sheet retreat, and the influence ...