ABSTRACT
One can speak of the English- and French- (Creole-) speaking islands together partly because of what they are not: they are not, in general, part of the sphere of Iberian cultural influence that includes Latin America, Central America, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. The French and British colonies had a much higher ratio of African slaves and free blacks to European colonists than did most of their Spanish counterparts, and consequently, neo-African culture and European-African syncretisms are more evident.
