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 126
... land not yet taken up amounted to 633,336 acres . Thus the island in 1752 had 500,000 acres in cul- tivation and 1,633,336 acres of cultivable land lying idle . There were 1,620 planters in 1754 ; the average plantation was about 1,000 ...
... land not yet taken up amounted to 633,336 acres . Thus the island in 1752 had 500,000 acres in cul- tivation and 1,633,336 acres of cultivable land lying idle . There were 1,620 planters in 1754 ; the average plantation was about 1,000 ...
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... land settlement of farmers on some of its lands , the manager wrote in reply : ' We have about 1,000 acres of land uncultivated which will eventually be suitable for growing canes ... We cannot afford to part with any of this land . In ...
... land settlement of farmers on some of its lands , the manager wrote in reply : ' We have about 1,000 acres of land uncultivated which will eventually be suitable for growing canes ... We cannot afford to part with any of this land . In ...
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... land in freehold . ' The land offered should be sold in small plots , five or seven acres as the Guiana Small Farmers Committee recommended , with no initial down payment and the cost extended over a number of years at low rates of ...
... land in freehold . ' The land offered should be sold in small plots , five or seven acres as the Guiana Small Farmers Committee recommended , with no initial down payment and the cost extended over a number of years at low rates of ...
Contents
Introduction | 10 |
Westward Ho | 13 |
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the West Indies | 18 |
Copyright | |
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