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 27
... profit and return to its owner ... there is no island or kingdom among Christians or pagans where there is anything like this industry of sugar . ' At the time that Oviedo wrote , Hispaniola had twenty ingenios and four trapiches , and ...
... profit and return to its owner ... there is no island or kingdom among Christians or pagans where there is anything like this industry of sugar . ' At the time that Oviedo wrote , Hispaniola had twenty ingenios and four trapiches , and ...
Page 125
... profit of 35s 6d , or a little under 20 per cent on the cost of production . The planters declared this to be the minimum profit at which they could possibly operate . The general average for Jamaica was 10 per cent . Records of one ...
... profit of 35s 6d , or a little under 20 per cent on the cost of production . The planters declared this to be the minimum profit at which they could possibly operate . The general average for Jamaica was 10 per cent . Records of one ...
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... profit . The Negroes taken on by the Prince de Conty on the coast of Africa averaged 275 livres each ; the survivors of the Middle Passage fetched 1,300 livres each in Saint - Domingue . In 1700 a cargo of 238 slaves was purchased by ...
... profit . The Negroes taken on by the Prince de Conty on the coast of Africa averaged 275 livres each ; the survivors of the Middle Passage fetched 1,300 livres each in Saint - Domingue . In 1700 a cargo of 238 slaves was purchased by ...
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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