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Author_Christopher Taylor
Baliceaux
Barbados
Belize
Bigot
Brigands' War
British Empire
CARIBBEAN STUDIES
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Central America
Chatoyer
Dominica
Dorsetshire Hill
Du Vallee
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French
Grand Sable
Grenada
Guatemala
HISTORY
Honduras
James Seton
Kingstown
Martinique
missionaries
Nicaragua
Percin de la Roque
Rabacca
resistance
Roatan
runaway
Second Carib War
Sir William Young
Spanish
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Sugar
Tobago
Tourouya
Trinidad
West African slaves
Yellow Caribs
Youroumayn
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- ISBN 9781496809568
- Weight: 326g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.
Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States, preserving their unique culture and speaking a language that directly descends from that spoken in the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. All trace their origins back to St. Vincent where their ancestors were native Carib Indians and shipwrecked or runaway West African slaves - hence the name by which they were known to French and British colonialists: Black Caribs.
In the 1600s they encountered Europeans as adversaries and allies. But from the early 1700s, white people, particularly the French, began to settle on St. Vincent. The treaty of Paris in 1763 handed the island to the British who wanted the Black Caribs' land to grow sugar. Conflict was inevitable, and in a series of bloody wars punctuated by uneasy peace the Black Caribs took on the might of the British Empire. Over decades leaders such as Tourouya, Bigot, and Chatoyer organized the resistance of a society which had no central authority but united against the external threat. Finally, abandoned by their French allies, they were defeated, and the survivors deported to Central America in 1797.
The Black Carib Wars draws on extensive research in Britain, France, and St. Vincent to offer a compelling narrative of the formative years of the Garifuna people.
Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States, preserving their unique culture and speaking a language that directly descends from that spoken in the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. All trace their origins back to St. Vincent where their ancestors were native Carib Indians and shipwrecked or runaway West African slaves - hence the name by which they were known to French and British colonialists: Black Caribs.
In the 1600s they encountered Europeans as adversaries and allies. But from the early 1700s, white people, particularly the French, began to settle on St. Vincent. The treaty of Paris in 1763 handed the island to the British who wanted the Black Caribs' land to grow sugar. Conflict was inevitable, and in a series of bloody wars punctuated by uneasy peace the Black Caribs took on the might of the British Empire. Over decades leaders such as Tourouya, Bigot, and Chatoyer organized the resistance of a society which had no central authority but united against the external threat. Finally, abandoned by their French allies, they were defeated, and the survivors deported to Central America in 1797.
The Black Carib Wars draws on extensive research in Britain, France, and St. Vincent to offer a compelling narrative of the formative years of the Garifuna people.
Christopher Taylor, London, England, is a journalist who works for the Guardian (London). He is the author of The Beautiful Game: A Journey through Latin American Football.
