Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
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Saint Kit's - A History of French Colonialism in the Caribbean
The French colony on saint kit's grew very powerful, and did so with fairly little investment or control from france. And the leaders and rulers of french saint kits become quite powerful and hard for france to manage. The compagny des ile de la merique really struggled through the 16 thirties and forties. They had hard timed recruiting people to go and build up the colony. France did not have this reservoir of prisoners and impoverished laborers to transport across the sea. So they colonized saint lucia in 16 forty three, and grenada in 16 forty nine. But martinique was of classic sugar colony on the model of barbadoes, but still the main
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