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    1. A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Beckles,Hilary (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1990
    Published:
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    224 p, Traces the events and ideas that shaped contemporary society. Examines the influences of the Amerindians, European colonisation, the sugar industry, the African slave trade, emancipation, the civil rights movement, independence and nationalism. Dr Beckles has blended an impressive quantity of primary research and published literature to produce an exciting and provocative history of this island state.

    8. Fire in the Canes

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lovell,Glenville (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1995
    Published:
    New York: Soho Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    262 p, The tragic romance of Prince Johnson, a shape-shifter and Midra, a beautiful young girl, on a sugar plantation in the West Indies