| The island's indigenous Arawak people were expelled or exterminated by Caribs in the 14th century. |
| Carib is spoken along the Caribbean coast by the Garifunas, or Black Caribs, the descendants of fugitive slaves and Carib Indians. |
| Black Caribs are descendants of freed black slaves and Carib Indians, and speak a language related to Carib. |
| But for the arrival of the Spaniards, the Caribs might have exterminated those first Jamaicans. |
| In the late 1700s, the Caribs knew that they needed some plan to defeat the French. |
| Its heritage includes the unique mingling of Africans and Amerindians that produced the group known as the Black Caribs. |
