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EXISTING SYLLABUS PROPOSED SYLLABUS
(Approved by SUBSEC in April 2016) (See Appendix III)
4. evaluate the strategies employed by men
and women in the British-colonised women to improve their socio-economic
Caribbean to establish independence status;
movements and regional integration
organisations; and, 4. evaluate the strategies employed by men
and women in the British-colonised
5. explain the political and constitutional status Caribbean to establish independence
of the French-colonised Caribbean movements and regional integration
territories since 1946. organisations;
5. explain the political and constitutional status
of the French-colonised Caribbean
territories since 1946; and,
Unit 1: Module 3 – Content 6. analyse the local, regional and international
Theme 1: Transformations in Caribbean impact of the Cuban Revolution.
Societies after 1900
Unit 1: Module 3 – Content
Theme 1: Freedom Delayed: Challenges and
Responses to the Creation of Free Societies
(a) Institutional Development and working class (a) European policies:
men’s and women’s initiatives after 1900. (i) legal (including laws against trespass,
(i) Peasantry-Economic activities and vagrancy);
peasant development after 1900. (ii) economic (including land policy);
(ii) The rise of Evangelical churches and (iii) labour (including indentureship or
syncretic forms of religions. contract);
(iii) Cooperatives, credit unions, friendly (iv) political (including control of
societies, benevolent societies, benefit government, voting policies, brutal
societies and Lodges. suppression of protests); and,
(iv) Susu, box hand, and partner. (v) socio-cultural (including race, impeding
(v) Black Entrepreneurship: development the creation of societies built on social
and challenges (merchant activity, shop equality and gender justice, missionary
keeping, transportation, hotels and action and education policies).
property ownership).
(b) Post-slavery Protest movements:
(b) Indentured Workers (Chinese, Indians, (i) Wars and protests (one of the following:
Javanese and Portuguese): Settlement and vox populi, 1862; Morant Bay, 1865;
Citizenship. Confederation Riots, 1876).
(i) The drive for upward social and (ii) Migration (Panama, 1904-1914 – causes
economic mobility by Indentured and and impact on the Caribbean)
post-Indentured workers: education, (iii) Cultural resistance (for example, cultural
religious conversion, cultural festivals in Grenada, 1882; Hosay in
assimilation, agricultural, commercial, Trinidad and Tobago, 1880s)
and professional activities.
(ii) Resistance to capitalist exploitation, Theme 2: Transformations in Caribbean
religious conversion, unjust laws and Societies 1840–1945
cultural assimilationist policies.
(a) Institutional Development and working class
(c) Popular protests by Caribbean men and men’s and women’s initiatives after 1900
women. (i) Economic activities and peasant
development
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