... two groups: 1. The Greater Antilles: Are composed of four northernmost large islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. 2. The Lesser Antilles: The smaller islands constituting the eastern portion of the Caribbean, they include the Leeward Islands of St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, Antigua, and Montserrat, as well as the Windward Islands of Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Dominica. The southernmost ... islands of the Lesser Antilles are Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, Martinique and Guadeloupe. Jamaica lies in the center of the Caribbean Sea, 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles w...

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... Goodison's For Rosa Parks; "But the people had walked before in yoked formations down to Calabar, into the belly of close-ribbed whales, sealed for seasons." Testimony of William James, Sea Captain: The Black Traders of Bonny and Calabar, who are very expert at reckoning and talking the difference languages of their own country and those of the Europeans; come down ... its history of slavery and colonial rule, its ethnic mix, and its fiercely independent spirit, Jamaica is a microcosm of the multicultural energies from which nation-states of the post-colonial Caribbean were born. And as...

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