How did slavery impact Caribbean?

When the Spanish came to the new world, they found Taino, Caribe, and Arawak Indian tribes on the various islands. Many of those natives were taken to work silver mines, cane fields, and indigo fields and ultimately all died off from disease and other causes. The Spanish then brought African slaves to work, a practice that continued in the southern portion of the new British territory that became the United States until Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Many of the residents of the Caribbean are the decendants of those slaves.