From Columbus To Castro

From Columbus to Castro: The Caribbean’s History is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands—Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda, Martinique, Trinidad, and others—separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers but bound together by a common heritage. The nationality of their rulers has made only a theoretical difference to the peoples of the Caribbean, whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-later-American. The history of sugar in the Caribbean is inextricably linked to the history of slavery, which was inextricably linked, until recently, to the systematic degradation of labor in the region. For the first time, there is a comprehensive work about a critically important yet misunderstood part of the world.