Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
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French Colonization in the Lesser Antilles
French colonization takes place on two separate tracts that happen simultaneously. They begin basically at the same time in different places in the caribbean, and they both develop through the 16 hundreds. But really separately and independently with whole different strategies and different bases of support. So this one began at saint kit's, exactly the same as the english. They just followed. And this sort of, course of french colonization in the lesser antilles, all kind of flows through saint kit's,. using saint kit's as the central base.
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