FROM PRE-COLONIAL ORIGINS TO THE PRESENT

ISBN 10: 0-13-220860-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-13-220860-4

My newest book, Caribbean History: From Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present (2012) has been published in the United States by Pearson.  The Table of Contents follows–

CONTENTS

Preface xi

Chapter 1 ORIGINAL PEOPLES 1
The Islands 1
First Nations 2
Further Readings 9

Chapter 2 THE COMING OF COLUMBUS 10
Before Columbus 10
First Encounter 12
Columbus 14
First Voyage, 1492–1493 15
Second Voyage, 1493–1496 16
Third Voyage, 1498–1500 16
Fourth Voyage, 1502–1504 17
Slavery and Genocide 18
The Requisition 24
Criminals, Monstrosities, Fabled Places and Little Men 25
Arawak Resistance 27
Carib Resistance 30
Columbian Exchange 30
Enrichment of Spain 31
Further Readings 32

Chapter 3 THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN CHALLENGE TO SPAIN 33
State of the Spanish Caribbean 33
Challenging Spain 39
Northern European Colonies Established 45
Sugar, Poor Whites 51
Jews 54
Pressure on the Caribs 56
Further Readings 57

Chapter 4 THE AFRICANS: LONG NIGHT OF ENSLAVEMENT 58
First Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean 60
Middle Passage 60
Sugar and Africanization 67
Enslavement 69
Life for the Enslaved 69
Punishment of the Enslaved 73
Sexual Exploitation of Enslaved Women 82
Further Readings 92

Chapter 5 THE ENSLAVED AND THE MANUMITTED: HUMAN
BEINGS IN SAVAGE SURROUNDINGS 93
Hierarchy of the Enslaved 93
Gardens, Provision Grounds and Entrepreneurship 98
Family Life 102
African Cultural Survivals 105
Urban Enslaved 109
Free People of Color 110
Conclusion 116
further Readings 116

Chapter 6 THE BIG FIGHT BACK: RESISTANCE,
MARRONAGE, PROTO-STATES 117
The Early Spanish Period: 1502 to the Early 1600s 121
Marronage Continues under the Northern Europeans 125
The Maroon Proto-States 127
Further Readings 139

Chapter 7 THE BIG FIGHT BACK: SURINAME AND JAMAICA 140
Suriname 140
Jamaica 150
The Maroons: Reasons for Success 153
Further Readings 158

Chapter 8 THE BIG FIGHT BACK: FROM REBELLION
TO HAITIAN REVOLUTION 159
Rebellions 160
Haitian Revolution 166
Further Readings 182

Chapter 9 EMANCIPATION: HELP FROM EUROPE, FINAL PUSH
FROM THE ENSLAVED 183
Missionaries 184
Abolitionists, Amelioration 186
Capitalism and Slavery 188
Emancipation 189
Further Readings 194

Chapter 10 AFTER EMANCIPATION: OBSTACLES
AND PROGRESS 195
Apprenticeship: Savage Interlude 195
Efforts to Thwart African Progress 198
More Post-Emancipation Riots and Uprisings 202
Post-Apprenticeship Struggle for African Progress 204
Education 205
African Intellectuals, Newspaper Publishing 206
Emigration 208
Haiti 209
Further Readings 210

Chapter 11 IMMIGRATION IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH
CENTURIES 211
Immigration 211
Chinese 212
Caribbean Immigrants 220
Africans 221
African Americans 222
Indians 222
Europeans 242
Portuguese 242
Jews 243
Others 245
Lebanese-Syrians 245
Comparative Immigrations 247
Further Readings 251

Chapter 12 THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA THROUGH
THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 252

Chapter 13 THE UNITED STATES AND THE CARIBBEAN
TO WORLD WAR II 260
The African American Connection 260
The Colossus of the North 267
Further Readings 273

Chapter 14 TWENTIETH CENTURY TO WORLD WAR II:
TURBULENT TIMES 275
Natural Disasters 276
Early Working-Class Stirrings 276
Cuba: Racial Massacre 278
World War I 280
Audrey Jeffers 282
Marcus Garvey 284
Postwar Upheaval in Trinidad 287
Early Political Parties 290
Middle-Class Rising 291
Sport 298
Rastafarian Movement 300
Labor Struggles of the 1930s 301
World War II 304
Further Readings 304

Chapter 15 WORLD WAR II TO CENTURY’S END 306
Constitutional Advance 306
British Guiana Disturbances 307
West Indies Federation 311
Black Power 313
Grenada Revolution 316
Death of Walter Rodney 319
Left-Wing Groupings 320
More Coups and Attempted Coups 321
Cuban Revolution 322
Puerto Rico 328
Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Suriname 330
French Antilles 331
Haiti 334
Dominican Republic 336
Drugs 337
Emigration since World War II 338
Further Readings 341

Chapter 16 PROGNOSIS 342
Credits 347
Index 000

"I can't put that book down. In the book you fill so many gaps in my knowledge of the history of the Caribbean. You also do it in such graphic detail, yet it does not seem as if I am reading a history book. The amount of research that you must have done to write that book must have taken you a lifetime....I always thought that it would be next to impossible to deal with the history of the Caribbean in one book. I was always of the view that the history of each of the islands and Guyana was so different. With your book, however, you have been able to pull the common threads of their history together."

- Honorable Mr. Justice Selwyn Romilly, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada.

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RARE AFRO-AMERICANA: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library. (With Wendy Ball)

"The first 55 pages consist of an exceptionally valuable introduction by Tony Martin, in which a history of Black intellectual life in nineteenth-century Philadelphia is traced, most painstakingly documented." AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL

"Rare Afro-Americana is made doubly useful by the brilliant introductory essay, 'Race men, Bibliophiles and Historians: The World of Robert M. Adger and the American Negro Historical Society of Philadelphia," by Tony Martin...." PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

"The real strength of the book, however, is the brilliant introduction by Tony Martin.... This fifty-five page essay vividly brings to life a special kind of bibliophile and his milieu." AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR

"Tony Martin's introduction provides an excellent historical context for Adger and his collecting activities." THE AMERICAN ARCHIVIST

1981. xvii + 234 pp. ISBN 0-8161-8175-6

Book 2 -IN NOBODY'S BACKYARD: The Grenada Revolution in its Own Words

Volume I: The Revolution at Home. (Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 1984). Ed., with the assistance of Dessima Williams.

1985. xvi + 201pp.ISBN 0-912469-12-9; 0-912469-16-1.

Book 4 - THE JEWISH ONSLAUGHT: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront (Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 1993).

"...a polemic of the highest order... the best example of an African answering critics since David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World."  Molefi Asante, JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES

"Professor Martin at long last deals with the Henry Gates/Cornel West attacks on Afrocentricity.... Martin provides a solid analysis of the historical use of Blacks by whites to discredit original Black thought deemed unacceptable by non-Blacks....

"I compare The Jewish Onslaught to the classic third chapter of DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk entitled 'Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others....' Martin has written a book that years from now will be considered a classic.... It is simply a must reading on a controversial subject that needs greater airing than some of the more timid political attempts of recent years."  Raymond Winbush, THE VOICE OF BLACK STUDIES

"Tony Martin has been forced to delve into the relationship between the Jews and Blacks and in the process, he has distilled a work that is informative, fascinating and one which will heighten the consciousness of Black people everywhere."  Carl Wint, SUNDAY GLEANER
#1 bestseller (YOUR BLACK BOOKS GUIDE)
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Black Literary Awards, 1994)

1993. vii + 137pp. ISBN 0-912469-30-7.

Book 5 - The Progress of the African Race Since Emancipation and Prospects for the Future (Port of Spain: Emancipation Support Committee and Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 1998; pamphlet).