UNESCO:Gen Hist Carib Vol 3 (HB) (v. 3)

History

Franklin W. Knight

Americas

Macmillan Caribbean

<p>Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king’s colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it.</p>

An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, and Related Texts

Bartolomé De Las Casas

Andrew Hurley

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

<p>From European contact through the present day, St. Domingue (Haiti) and Louisiana have been bound together by shared economies, cultural enterprises, and peoples. Common Routes: St. Domingue Louisiana, a ground-breaking exhibition at The Historic New Orleans Collection in the spring of 2006, illuminated this shared history. The exhibition catalogue features essays by noted scholars Franklin Knight, John Garrigus, Laurent Dubois, Gilles-Antoine Langlois, Alfred Lemmon, and John Lawrenceas well as reproductions of images and artifacts featured in the exhibition. Readers will find the stories of individuals rooted in the intersection of cultures and re-routed across oceans in search of fortune or freedom. Among the protagonists are the thousands of immigrants who settled in Louisiana in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. Their civic and artistic contributions imbued New Orleans with a distinctive cultural dye that marks the city's character to this day.</p>

Common Routes: St. Domingue Louisiana

Arts & Photography

Alfred E. Lemmon

John H. Lawrence

John Garrigus

Gilles-Antoine Langlois

Laurent Dubois

Themes

The Historic New Orleans Collection

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