Ian Thomson

Only tourists think of the Caribbean as a ‘paradise’

A review of Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, by Carrie Gibson. A vivid and thought-provoking synthesis of the disparate histories of the islands of the West Indies

Slaves planting cane cuttings in Antigua, 1823, by William Clark [the bridgeman art library]

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