Carib Expulsion

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The Carib Expulsion took place in 1660 on the new French colony of Martinique in the Caribbean.

France began to settle the island in 1635. Using their overwhelming military superiority, the French forces of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc subjected the indigenous Carib peoples to French colonial rule. Through Cardinal Richelieu, France gave the island to the Company of the American Islands (Compagnie des Isles d'Amerique). French Law was imposed on the conquered inhabitants and the Jesuits arrived to convert them to the Roman Catholic Church.

When the Caribs could not be sufficiently induced to supply labour for building and maintaining the sugar and cocoa plantations the Company desired, in 1636 King Louis XIII authorized the abduction of slaves from Africa for transportation to Martinique and other parts of the French West Indies. The Caribs soon revolted against French rule and under Governor Charles Houel sieur de Petit Pré a war was launched against them. Many were slaughtered; those who survived were taken captive in 1660 and expelled from the island, never to return.

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