ABSTRACT
This chapter begins discusses an impressive historical Caribbean phenomenon: a marvelous cradle-hammock and painful cornucopia. The most extraordinary telluric developments of Caribbean syncretism are the Garifuna culture. Garifuna culture which counters both the images generated through a colonial educational system and more devastatingly through the popular images. In Panama the best example of the negative consequence of creolization is the separation and national hatred that exists among the so-called colonial and the black West Indians. The aspects of creolization that have as their sole goal and intention to erase the African heritage in Caribbean culture and identity. The yoke of African slavery in the Caribbean began in 1517, when Bartolom de las Casas petitioned Carlos V to concede licenses to Spanish settlers to import to Santo Domingo black slaves directly from Africa, a solution to the genocide of the Indians, and as a substitute for Indian slave labor.
