A History of St Lucia

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A History of St Lucia is the primary-ever detailed and
comprehensive record of St Lucia’s turbulent past.
Beginning with the island’s geological formation
and subsequent Amerindian occupation,
this book takes one through colonization by
France and England to the upward thrust and fall of the
sugar industry, the tribulations of slavery, the
feverish hopes and fears of the Brigand Wars
and, in the end, Emancipation. After 1838,
St Lucia’s newly freed other people went in search
of independence, dignity and respectability:
an era marked by the immigration of indentured
workers from Barbados, Africa and India, the upward thrust
of a peasantry, and a labouring class searching for
new horizons.
The arduous battle with ‘Mr Hard Times’ formed
fertile soil for a hard-fought coming of age within the
20th century when unions and political parties
developed amidst the turmoil of 2 World Wars
and a city’s Death by Fire. Forcing ‘King Sugar’ to
his knees cleared the path to a new St Lucia, built
at the ‘green gold’ of the banana industry – an
era which in many ways came to an lead to 2007
with the passing of the architect of independence,
Sir John Compton.

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