From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969The first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it's about millions of people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others -- separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. |
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Page 43
... Negro . At loggerheads over the Indian question , they were reconciled on the Negro question . Justice to the Indians was purchased at the price of injustice to the Africans . The belligerent Protector of the Indians became a benevolent ...
... Negro . At loggerheads over the Indian question , they were reconciled on the Negro question . Justice to the Indians was purchased at the price of injustice to the Africans . The belligerent Protector of the Indians became a benevolent ...
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... Negro was a man in the eyes of God . The French Dominican missionary , du Tertre , the Las Casas of the Negro , was dominated by this spirit of Christian brother- hood . He concluded his treatment of the subject of Negro slavery in his ...
... Negro was a man in the eyes of God . The French Dominican missionary , du Tertre , the Las Casas of the Negro , was dominated by this spirit of Christian brother- hood . He concluded his treatment of the subject of Negro slavery in his ...
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... Negro slave . The issue at stake in both theatres , for both slaves and intellectuals , was freedom . As far as the intellectual controversy was concerned , the decisive question was whether the Negro was the inferior of the white man ...
... Negro slave . The issue at stake in both theatres , for both slaves and intellectuals , was freedom . As far as the intellectual controversy was concerned , the decisive question was whether the Negro was the inferior of the white man ...
Contents
Introduction | 10 |
Westward Ho | 13 |
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the West Indies | 18 |
Copyright | |
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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 Eric Williams No preview available - 1983 |
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