Caribbean people

Caribbean people are the people born in or inhabitants of a Caribbean region or people of Caribbean descent living outside the Caribbean. The Caribbean region was initially populated by Amerindians from several different Kalinago as well as Taino groups. These groups were decimated by a combination of enslavement together with disease brought by European colonizers. Descendants of the Taino and Kalinago tribes live today in the Caribbean and elsewhere but are commonly of partial Amerindian ancestry.

Modern Caribbean people normally further identify by their own specific ethnic ancestry, therefore constituting various subgroups, of which are: Afro-Caribbean largely descendants of bonded African slaves White Caribbean largely descendants of European colonizers and some indentured workers and Indo-Caribbean largely descendants of jahaji indentured workers.