Colonialism and the Caribbean: Wealth, Power and the British Imperial State S. Karly Kehoe, Ben H. Shepherd, Nelson Mundell and Louise Montgomery . The natives of the islands are put to work as slaves in the mines. Historical Map of North America & the Caribbean (27 October 1979 - Decolonization in the Caribbean: In the 1960s and '70s, the British withdrew from most of their remaining colonies in the Americas. Along with a number of colonies in North America, the Caribbean formed the heart of England’s first overseas empire. Thererafter, when the limited supply of gold is exhausted, the Spanish West Indies survive as part of the broader economy of Spanish America. 54 S. Karly Kehoe, Ben H. Shepherd, Nelson Mundell and Louise Montgomery enough to establish their own African bases.

The Caribbean Atlas project. The region was also known as the ‘West Indies’ because when the explorer Christopher Columbus first arrived there in 1492, he believed that he had sailed to the ‘Indies’, as Asia was then known. >> Read more The first Spanish colonists in the Caribbean, in the 16th century, have hoped primarily to grow rich by finding gold. The Caribbean Atlas is resulting from cooperation between the main Universities in the Caribbean region: University of the West Indies (Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago), University of Curaçao, University Anton de Kom (Suriname), State University of Haiti, University of Havana. A brief attempt to create a West Indies Federation collapsed when Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago decided to pull out, resulting in each island group getting its own independence.