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Yet five centuries after the Indiansâ fateful meeting with Columbus, elements of their culture endureâin the genetic heritage of modern Antilleans, in the persistence of Taino taÃ­no words and in isolated communities where people carry on traditional methods of, architecture, farming fishing and. healing
Ironically, the first ship carrying slaves across the Atlantic went from west to east. During his second voyage to America, Columbus captured 500 Caribbean Indians to take back to Spain. About 200 Indians died during the Atlantic crossing and were thrown into the sea.n 1860, Nathaniel Gordon, one of the last American slave ship captains, made a voyage to West Africa and loaded his ship, the Erie, with 900 Africans, 600 of whom were children.