The West Indies and the Spanish Main
by James Rodway
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About this eBook
- Author
- Rodway, James, 1848-1926
- Credits
- Produced by Steven Gibbs, Jane Hyland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F1601: History of the Americas: West Indies
- Subject
- West Indies -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32809
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32809
- Release Date
- June 14, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Story of the Nations
- 2.THE WEST INDIES — THE WEST INDIES — AND THE — SPANISH MAIN — BY — JAMES RODWAY — SECOND IMPRESSION
- 3.London — T. FISHER UNWIN — PATERNOSTER SQUARE — Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin , 1896 (For Great Britain). Copyright by G.P. Putnam's Sons , 1896 (For the United States of America).
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — THE WEST INDIES — I — THE SPANIARDS AND THEIR VICTIMS — II — THE QUEST FOR "EL DORADO" — III — "SINGEING THE SPANIARD'S BEARD" — IV — RALEGH AND THE FIRST BRITISH COLONIES — V — BUCCANEERS, FILIBUSTERS, AND PIRATES — VI — WAR IN THE YOUNG COLONIES — VII — THE PLANTERS AND THEIR SLAVES — VIII — THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY — IX — THE STRUGGLE FOR THE DARIEN TRADE — X — SLAVE INSURRECTIONS AND BUSH NEGROES — XI — THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEAS — XII — DOWNFALL OF HISPANIOLA — XIII — EMANCIPATION OF THE SPANISH MAIN — XIV — ABOLITION OF SLAVERY — XV — RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION — XVI — THE ISTHMUS TRANSIT SCHEMES
- 7.INDEX
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