Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

by Christopher Taylor

Book Overview

In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.

Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States, preserving their unique culture and speaking a language that directly descends from that spoken in the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. All trace their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496809564
• ISBN13: 9781496809568
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi/Signal Books,
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"