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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands-Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigue, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the lanaguages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage.
For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean.
The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labour in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented are of the world.
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