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Read Replies (3) | Respond to Save your Victorious Victorian Values, history bears witness to as many or more atrocities by the Brits than Hitler and the communists combined. Virtuous Victorian Values In the Caribbean (1500s–1600s), Indigenous peoples such as the Taíno and Kalinago (often called “Caribs”) were violently targeted during colonization. Spanish colonizers were the first to do this extensively, using horses, weapons, and attack dogs to capture, terrorize, or kill Indigenous people. When the British took control of islands like Barbados, Jamaica, St. Kitts, Antigua, and others, similar violence occurred—especially during land seizures and suppression of resistance. Hunting “like animals ” Contemporary European accounts describe organized manhunts, where Indigenous people were: Chased while fleeing Captured for forced labor or slavery Killed to break resistance or clear land Dogs trained to attack humans were commonly used. Horses gave colonizers a huge military advantage. This practice was sometimes framed as “pacification” or “punishment,” but modern historians are clear: it was racialized violence and ethnic cleansing. British involvement specifically The British did not invent this practice, but they continued it in certain colonies. On islands like St. Vincent and Dominica, British forces conducted armed campaigns against the Kalinago well into the 1700s. In some cases, Indigenous survivors were exiled, enslaved, or killed, contributing to near-total population collapse. Important nuance This wasn’t every British settler, and it wasn’t always literal “sport hunting.” But state-sanctioned violence, bounties, raids, and mounted pursuit of Indigenous people absolutely occurred. Modern historians broadly agree these actions meet today’s definitions of crimes against humanity and, in some cases, genocide. Why this isn’t talked about much Caribbean Indigenous populations were almost wiped out early, so fewer written records survive from their side. Later histories focused more on African slavery, which (rightly) dominates Caribbean history—but that sometimes pushed Indigenous genocide out of public memory.
