The Caribbean island of Carriacou was ceded to the British by the French after the Seven Years’War (1763). Carriacou’s population of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Scots, and free people of color, along with their enslaved workers, comprised a distinctive slaveholding society in comparison to that of the old British colonies.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13282; included in Thomson Gale's Eighteenth century collections online., 64 p
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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214 p., "Collins's novel is a tribute to the Afro-Caribbean oral tradition, a vanishing landscape as well as an exploration in "life sense." Characters such as Carib, Mamag, and Willive struggle against forgetting the historical ties that have implications for the present. In the end Collins would have us understand that the humanity of a people, the survival of a people, rests with its young, the young's willful desire to present to its community what the textbooks do not: the history of ordinary people." --Adele S. Newson, Florida International University.
