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 37
... labour in the Caribbean . And it served as the basis for the later , more extensive , and more comprehensive treatment of the Negro . In order to protect the Indians from the excessive labour im- posed on them , Las Casas accepted the ...
... labour in the Caribbean . And it served as the basis for the later , more extensive , and more comprehensive treatment of the Negro . In order to protect the Indians from the excessive labour im- posed on them , Las Casas accepted the ...
Page 215
... labour . Hence their productivity was low , and their owners retaliated by driving them to more continuous and violent labour . The constant war between slave and master , he stressed , further lessened production , while free labour ...
... labour . Hence their productivity was low , and their owners retaliated by driving them to more continuous and violent labour . The constant war between slave and master , he stressed , further lessened production , while free labour ...
Page 379
... labour , completely re- futing the pundits who , then as now , have sought to justify slavery and the slave trade on the ground that , without Negro labour , sugar cultivation was impossible , represented the only instance in which the ...
... labour , completely re- futing the pundits who , then as now , have sought to justify slavery and the slave trade on the ground that , without Negro labour , sugar cultivation was impossible , represented the only instance in which the ...
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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