Casting a wide net over the intriguing world of Modern History
When the Empires of Europe bought their slaves from Africa, they put many of them to work on the lush plantations in the Caribbean colonies. The British had Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. The Spanish had Cuba, Puerto…
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The northernmost region of South America, with a coastline along the Caribbean Sea, is known as Guiana – an old indigenous word meaning ‘land of many waters’. For centuries it was home to the Arawok and Carib peoples, who were very similar,…
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