The Origins of Afro-Caribbean Dance All forms of Afro-Caribbean dance have their roots in Africa. In the 15th to 18th century when the slaves were being brought over to America from Africa, they were mostly gathered from the western coast of North Senegal and South Angola. The reasons for most of them coming from this region is because the European traders thought it easier and less expensive to transport slaves from the west coast of …showed first 75 words of 910 total…

…showed last 75 words of 910 total…il, and Jamaica played a major role in the amount of similarities between these cultures and those of West Africa. This was because the Atlantic Ocean was the only obstacle that separated West Africa from the Americas, which in part has helped to preserve African tradition and also link the people in the new world who were separated from this tradition, while making a new life and a new culture for themselves and their descendants.