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A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in...
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Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857. Volume IIn the compilation of this volume, David Dobson combed archives and libraries in Scotland, England, and Denmark to yield the first listing devoted to Scottish inhabitants of the West Indies for the period between 1707 and 1857. While the full impact of Scottish settlement...
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Canada: A New Tax HavenIn Canada: A New Tax Haven, Alain Deneault traces Canada's relationship with Britain's Caribbean colonies back through the last half of the twentieth century, arguing that the involvement of Canadian financiers in establishing and maintaining Caribbean tax havens has predisposed Canada to become a...
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Slave Old ManThe heart-stopping (The Millions), richly layered (Brooklyn Rail), haunting, beautiful (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues himSlave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed--but every page pulses, blood-warm. . . . The prose is...
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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of DifferenceSet along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized...
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An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British CaribbeanThere were 26--not 13--British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean--Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica--were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and...
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Return to Glory: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Barbados and West Indies CricketGrantley E. Edwards is an ardent cricket fan who as a little boy went to bed with cricket on his mind and woke up the next morning with a bat in his hand. He admired Sir Frank Worrell for his cool demeanour, his leadership...
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Scots in the West Indies 1707-1857 Vol 2The work at hand is the second volume in this series. It is the outgrowth of Mr. Dobson's researches in the archives and libraries of Scotland, England, and Denmark and, together with Volume I, it represents the first listing devoted to Scottish inhabitants of...
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Fodor's Essential CaribbeanWhether you want to stay at an all-inclusive resort, find the best beach, or snorkel around some of the world's best coral reefs, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Caribbean are here to help! Fodor's Essential Caribbean guidebook is packed with maps, carefully...
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The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945)A new and complete English translationThe Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne Césaire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. Césaire engages anthropology, esthetics, surrealism, history, and poetry as she grapples with questions of power and deception, self-deception, the...
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The Bone ReadersWINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE'The Bone Readers is a page-turner, but its insights and language are equally testament to a literary novel of impressive depth and acuity'GuardianSecrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . . After standing witness to a murder on...
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School DaysSchool Days (Chemin-d'Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau's childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of...
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DK Eyewitness CaribbeanEscape to islands infused with vivacious culture. Whether you want to join the world's biggest street party in Trinidad, cruise around the Virgin Islands or admire Havana's yesteryear architecture, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that the Caribbean has to...
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An account of the slave trade on the coast of AfricaAn account of the slave trade on the coast of AfricaThe following sheets are intended to lay before the public the present state of a branch of the British commerce, which, ever since its existence, has been held in detestation by all good men,...
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A caution to Great Britain and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes in the British dominionsA caution to Great Britain and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes in the British dominionsAT a time when the general rights and liberties of mankind, and the preservation of those valuable privileges transmitted to us...
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Sorrow in SunlightSorrow in SunlightLooking gloriously bored, Miss Miami Mouth gaped up into the boughs of a giant silk-cotton-tree. In the lethargic noontide nothing stirred: all was so still, indeed, that the sound of someone snoring was clearly audible among the cane-fields far away. And, inconsequently,...
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In the wake of the buccaneersIn the wake of the buccaneersThere is no more entrancing body of water in either the Western or the Eastern Hemispherethan the Caribbean Sea, with a fringe of lovely tropical islands on the one side and on the other the Spanish Main and its...
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In Quest of El DoradoIn Quest of El DoradoHaving voyaged twice to America from British ports and once from Copenhagen, I determined on my fourth visit to approach America from Spain and try to follow Columbus's keel over the waters. This study of the quest of El Dorado...
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The West Indies: Being a Description of the Islands, Progress of Christianity, Education, and Liberty Among the Colored Population GenerallyThe West Indies: Being a Description of the Islands, Progress of Christianity, Education, and Liberty Among the Colored Population GenerallyA denomination under which is comprehended a large chain of islands, extended in a curve from the Florida shore on the northern peninsula of America,...
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The Holy PibyThe Holy PibyThe Holy Piby, a book founded by the Holy Spirit to deliver the gospel commanded by the Almighty God for the full salvation of Ethiopias posterities. In time the Piby shall contain all worthy prophecies and inspirations endowed by God upon the...
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