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Caribbean
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Beginning before European conquest, the novel moves among the islands of the Caribbean as Indigenous societies encounter Spanish invaders, rival imperial powers, pirates, planters, enslaved Africans and merchants. Linked stories show how conquest, sugar, forced labour and maritime warfare create societies divided by race and class yet connected by trade, migration and resistance.
Later generations experience slave uprisings, emancipation, nationalist movements, foreign intervention and the uncertain economies of the twentieth century. Rather than treating the region as a single culture, the novel contrasts the histories of different islands while showing how colonial rule and the Atlantic economy produced shared patterns of exploitation, survival and cultural reinvention.
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