The Black Carib Wars [Texte imprimé] : freedom, survival, and the making of the Garifuna / Christopher Taylor

Taylor, Christopher

Jackson : University Pressof Mississipi , cop.2012

1 vol.(203p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm

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 th

Caribbean studies series

9781617033100

Saint-Vincent(Saint-Vincent et les Grenadines;île) -- Guerre des Caraïbes -- Histoire -- 1795-1796

9781617033100