Caribbean Connections: 
Overview of Regional History

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Objectives and Methods
How to Use These Materials

Map of the Caribbean
Map Exercises
Chronology

Part One: The First Caribbean Peoples

The Arawaks and the Caribs
The  Arawaks of Jamaica
Areytons and Ball  Games
Fishing for  Haimara

Part Two: Conquest and Colonial Rule

The Conquest
  Columbus, the  Indians, and Human Progress
   Agueybana the Brave

Bitter Sugar
  The Slave Trade: A Triangle of Commerce
   An African's Testimony
   La balada de los dos abuelos
    Ballad of My Two Grandfathers

Part Three: Winning Freedom

African Resistance to Slavery
  Revolt:  How the Slaves Protested
  Nanny of the Maroons
  The Haitian  Revolution and Its Impact on the Americas

Emancipation and Free Village Life
  It Wasn't Just the Doctoring We Have to Do for Ourself 

From India to the Caribbean
  The Experiences of Indentureship in Trinidad
  The Still Cry

The Promise of Education
  The  Scholarship
 

Part Four: Building New Nations

Antillean Independence Movements
 The Man Who Bought Babies
        El Grito de Lares
           La Borinqueña (The Song of Borínquen)
           José Martí:  The Early Years
           Guantanamera           

Gunboat Diplomacy
  The Importance of the Caribbean
  The Divine Mission of America
   A Dangerous  Neighbor
   General Miles's  Proclamation
   Report of a Special Correspondent in Puerto  Rico
   The Americans in Haiti
   Occupied Haiti
   A Haitian View of the  Occupation
    Letter from a Haitian Acquaintance to Emily G. Balch

The Cuban Revolution 1959-1962
  On the Eve of Revolution
   Living the Revolution
   Tengo
   I Have
   Dos  poemas para mi nieta
   Two Poems for My Granddaughter
   Vivo en Cuba
   I Live in Cuba           

West Indian Independence
  Independence Day
   "We were all Trinidadians..."
   "The solution would be a federation..."
   Conditions Critical
   Proclamation
   You Are Involved
   Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
   Notebook of a Return to My  Native Land          

Further Reading on Caribbean History

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