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 121
... wrote : " The reason why so little has been discovered is that the old settlers through rooted habit and those born in the colony through inborn in- difference , so strongly cling to their old way that nothing , not even the most ...
... wrote : " The reason why so little has been discovered is that the old settlers through rooted habit and those born in the colony through inborn in- difference , so strongly cling to their old way that nothing , not even the most ...
Page 254
... wrote on September 17 , 1802 , ... the news of the re- establishment of slavery in Guadeloupe has made me lose a great part of my influence on the blacks . ' Nine days later he wrote to Bonaparte : " The colonists and the men of ...
... wrote on September 17 , 1802 , ... the news of the re- establishment of slavery in Guadeloupe has made me lose a great part of my influence on the blacks . ' Nine days later he wrote to Bonaparte : " The colonists and the men of ...
Page 322
... wrote confidentially to the Secretary of State for the Colonies : ' Now the ball has begun to roll , nobody can say when or where it is to stop . ' From British Guiana the ball rolled , in the following year , to Jamaica . While the ...
... wrote confidentially to the Secretary of State for the Colonies : ' Now the ball has begun to roll , nobody can say when or where it is to stop . ' From British Guiana the ball rolled , in the following year , to Jamaica . While 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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