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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... trade from 1773 had gone bankrupt . Slave trading , like sugar production , had its casualties . A slave trader in 1754 , as his supreme defence of the slave trade , had adumbrated that ' from this trade proceed 154 From Columbus to Castro.
... trade from 1773 had gone bankrupt . Slave trading , like sugar production , had its casualties . A slave trader in 1754 , as his supreme defence of the slave trade , had adumbrated that ' from this trade proceed 154 From Columbus to Castro.
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... Slavery Society in England and the Amis des Noirs in France were beginning to agitate against the slave trade , and when the Negroes in Saint - Domingue were about to begin their struggle against slavery . Cuba , in 1789 , was thus ...
... Slavery Society in England and the Amis des Noirs in France were beginning to agitate against the slave trade , and when the Negroes in Saint - Domingue were about to begin their struggle against slavery . Cuba , in 1789 , was thus ...
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... Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species , London , 1786 T. Clarkson , Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade , London , 1788 T. Clarkson , History of the Rise , Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave Trade ...
... Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species , London , 1786 T. Clarkson , Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade , London , 1788 T. Clarkson , History of the Rise , Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave Trade ...
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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