Geography The islands forming the Caribbean stretch in an arc from Venezuela to Florida, and are divided into two groups: 1. ... The Lesser Antilles: The smaller islands constituting the eastern portion of the Caribbean, they include the Leeward Islands of St. ... Jamaica lies in the center of the Caribbean Sea, 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles west of Hispaniola. ... Cromwell personally viewed the Spanish occupation of the Caribbean as an abomination to God and to the English, and the Spanish assertion of dominion in these seas by "right of discovery and papal edict" feel on deaf e...

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He went from Africa, to the Caribbean, to the Americas, to the West Indies, and also spent a great deal of his time out at sea. ... The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was culturally an Englishman, he had become a son of Africa" (Alison 4). ... After being at sea for about three years, Equiano comments that, "From the various scenes I had beheld on shipboard, I soon grew a stranger to terror of every kind, and was, in that respec...

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His schooling was interrupted by different times he was at sea. ... He took what were seemingly a couple of very pleasant cruises around the Mediterranean, and then a voyage back to the Caribbean, before in 1773 joining a voyage of exploration. ...

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And at the end of this second world war in 1945, Britain was quickly recognized that the reconstruction of British economy required a large influx of immigrants labour.The Royal commission on population reported in 1949 that immigrants of good stock would be welcomed without reserve, and potential newcomers from the Caribbean and elsewhere soon became aware of pressing needs of labor market in the united kingdom. ... It is separated from the continent by the North sea and by the England channel, which narrows to 34km ( 21mi) at the straits of Dover.It stretches over about ten degrees of latitu...

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