The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
by
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and...