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THE GAIRY YEARS<br >Grenada and the Grenadines were discovered for Europe by Columbus<br >during his third voyage in 1498. Although the native Carib Indians<br >made full use of the mountainous terrain and dense bush to repel<br >would-be colonisers in an era when the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis<br >was worth more in terms of value of produce than the nascent New<br >York state, their eventual defeat was inevitable. This was accomplished<br >by the French after a bloody war in 1651 which ended when the Carib<br >leadership jumped over a cliff into the sea, preferring death to slavery.<br >The name of the nearby village, Sauteurs, or leapers , bears witness to<br >this defiance to the present day. War between Britain and France led<br >to Grenada s formal annexation by the British in 1763. Slaves from<br >Africa had first been imported in the late seventeenth century and, by<br >the time of the British take-over, totalled nearly 12,000 as against<br >1,250 Europeans. By 1934, as many as 23,600 transplanted Africans<br >toiled in the hot sun of Grenada.<br > Anglo-French rivalry in the Caribbean did not cease with the end of<br >the Seven Years War; indeed, it was given added impetus by the rever-<br >berations of the French and Haitian revolutions. From their head-<br >quarters in Guadeloupe, the French revolutionaries planned the recap-<br >ture of Grenada through subversion and insurrection. A revolutionary<br >edict of 1792 had declared the equality of all races: it was not therefore<br >surprising that slaves supported a rebellion raised by Julien F6don, a<br >French coloured planter. For two years his forces held the north and<br >east of the island, being defeated only when the British called upon<br > Spanish assistance from Trinidad. Although F6don s struggle was<br >essentially against the hated British, he was later venerated as a cam-<br > paigner for the rights of the slaves, although none were ever formally<br > freed. Popular resistance, although sporadic, did not stop with emanci-<br > pation in 1834. In 1848, wage reductions consequent upon sharp falls<br > in the London sugar price triggered revolt in the island, as did un-<br > employment and destitution for returning soldiers who, in 1920, tried<br > to destroy the capital, St George s, by fire.<br > These developing political and economic pressures, exacerbated in<br > the inter-war years by world economic depression, prompted two<br > Grenadians, Uriah Buzz Butler and T. Albert Marryshow, to take action.<br > Although born only a decade apart - in 1897 and 1887 respectively -<br >q~<br >Q<br ><br >
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Grenada pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024