The course looks at the evolution of European colonization of the Caribbean. It deals with the earliest (pre-European) societies and how the arrival of the Spaniards and others affected the indigenes of the area. The course further examines how the different European nations came in and through the forced importation of Africans began to establish various European dominated multiracial societies. Much attention is given to the forced African immigrants in these societies, their labour, treatment, reaction, etc. up to the period when European governments decided to end slavery for their nationals.