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Spanish Slavers and European Interlopers on the Spanish Lake: Eye Witness Accounts from Shipwreck Survivors in the Lesser Antilles 1620-1635 (2013)
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The Caribbean Islands, neglected by the Spanish in their conquest of the mainland, were colonized in the 1620s by French, Dutch and English settlers. In less than 50 years, the neglected Islands would become pivotal in European politics. Wealthy planters in England would control parliament for the next 150 years and the Caribbean would be changed forever, leaving behind a legacy of genocide, slavery and immigration. Slaves played a key role in this process. This paper, based on primary sources...