Here's some information on 18th century onward Afro-Caribbean dances; These dances were also known in the southern USA.

CARIBBEAN DANCES

Calenda
"The dancers were arranged in two lines, facing each other, the men on one side and the woman on the other. Those who are tired of dancing form a circle with the spectators around the dancers and the drums. The ablest person sings a song which he composes on the spot on any subject he considers appropriate. The refrain of this song is sung by everyone and is accompanied by great handclapping. As for the dancers, they hold their arms a little like someone is playing castagnettes. They jump, make swift turns, approach each other to a distance of two or three feet than draw back with the beat of the drum until the sound of the drum brings them back together again to strike their thighs, that is the men's, against the woman's. To see them it would seem that they were striking each other's bellies although it is only the thighs to receive the blows. At the proper time they withdraw a pirouette, only to begin again the same movement with lascivious gestures; this, as many times as the drums give the signal, which is many times in a now. From time to time they lock arms and make several revolutions always slapping their thighs together and kissing each other..."

{Pere Labat, "Nouveau Voyage Aux Isles de l'Amerique", translated. by Anthony Bliss (2 vols. The Hague, 1724; 11, 52 quoted in Lynne Fauley Emery, "Black Dance from 1619-to Today" ;second revised edition; Princeton Book Company Edition, 1988, p. 22}

"Seventy-five years after Labat, St. Mery wrote this different description of the dance which he called the Kalenda:
"One male and one female dancer, or an equal number of dancers of each sex push to the middle of the circle and begin to dance, remaining in pairs. This repetitious dance consists of a very simple step where, as in the "Anglais" one alternately extends each foot and withdraws it, tapping several times with the heel and toe. All one sees is the man spinning himself or twirling around his partner, who, herself, also spins and moves about, unless one is to count the raising and lowering of the arms if the dancers who hold their elbows close to their sides with the hands almost clenched. The woman holds both ends of a kerchief as she rocks from side to side. When one has not witnessed it himself, it is hard to believe how lively and animated it is as well as how the rigorous following of meter gives it such grace. The dancers ceaselessly replace each other, and the blacks derive such pleasure from this entertainment that they must be forced to stop."

{De. M.L E Moreau de St-Mery, "Danse", translated by Anthony Bliss (Philadelphia, 1796, 45-46) quoted in Emery, op. cit., p. 23)

Chica

St. Mery's description of the Chica:
"When one wants to dance the Chica, a tune, especially reserved for that type of dance, is played on crude instruments. The beat is very pronounced. For the woman, who hold the ends of her kerchief or the sides of her skirt, the art of this dance consists mainly in moving the lower part of her loins while maintaining the upper part of her body practically immobile. Should one want to enliven the Chica, a man approaches a woman while she is dancing, and, throwing himself forward precipitously, he falls in with the rhythm, almost touching her, drawing back, lunging again, seeming to want to coax her to surrender to the passion which engulfs them. When the Chica reaches its most expressive stage, there is in the gestures and movements of the two dances a harmony that is more easily imagined than described."
(St. Mery, op. cit., pp.51-22)

Bamboula
"The Bamboula dance is named after the baboula, one of the drums used to accompany the Chica. It is described as essentially the same dance as the Chica". (Emery, op. cit, pps.26-27)

Juba

"Juba is a competition or challenge dance that spread from the Caribbean to the southern United States. Writing in 1844 F.W. E. Wudermann described a dance done on Cuba by Black slaves:
Presently a woman advances and commencing a slow dance, made up of shuffling of the feet and various contortions of the body; thus challenges a rival among the men. One of these, borders than the rest tire the order, after awhile steps out, and the two then strive which shall first tire the other; the woman performing many feats which the man attempts to rival, often excelling them, amid the shouts of the rest. A woman will sometimes drive two or three successive beaux from the ring, yielding her place at length to some impatient belle, who has been meanwhile looking on with envy at her success. Sometimes a sturdy fellow will keep the field for a long time, and one after another if the other sex will advance to the context only to e defeated each one, as she retires, being greeted by the laughter if the spectators".

(F.W. Wurdermann, "Notes on Cuba, Containing An account Of Its Discovery and Early History, a Description of the Face of the Country, Its Institutions, and the Manners and Customs of Its Inhabitants, With Directions to Travelers Visiting the Island" {Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844)}, quoted in Emery,
op. cit.,p. 27}