Dominica History, Caribbean People: The European Settlements, The Colonial Period, Political Traditions

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Dominica History. European settlements within the Caribbean started with Christopher Columbus. Carrying an elaborate feudal commission that made him perpetual governor of all lands found out and gave him a percentage of all trade conducted, Columbus set sail in September 1492, made up our minds to discover a faster, shorter way to China and Japan. He planned to set up a trading-post empire, modeled after the successful Portuguese venture along the West African coast. His aim used to be to establish direct commercial relations with the producers of spices and other luxuries of the fabled East, thereby cutting out the Arab middlemen who had monopolized trade since capturing Constantinople in 1453. He also planned to link up with the lost Christians of Abyssinia, who were reputed to have great quantities of gold–a commodity in great demand in Europe. In spite of everything, as a good Christian, Columbus wanted to spread Christianity to new peoples. Columbus, of course, didn’t find the East. However, he referred to as the peoples he met “Indians,” and, because he had sailed west, referred to the region he found as the “West Indies

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