Stumbling upon paradise...Barbados: "When you close your eyes, imagining a beach with white sands, a crystal ocean and infinite horizon the vision between your bare feet…you’re picturing Barbados, you just don’t know it yet. This easternmost Caribbean island is considered part of the Lesser Antilles, a four hour flight from Miami. If you’re concerned about rain, no worries, the wet season falls between July and November, though Barbadian showers are just as majestic as its sunshine. Being from Southwest Louisiana, the word ‘Hurricane’ isn’t just said in passing. But, again, no worries."
Today more than ever before, the ways of the Carib are to be laughed at and ridiculed; the dirty, heathen savages who are to be shunted away and have no rights but to die far away. The colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history. Four centuries ago Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap, kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the islands the Indians called Ichiroganaum. The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese sailors knew the island only as the barbarous island, “Los Barbados” where brutality and crime could be committed with immunity. The island lay just outside the Caribbean and far away from watchful eyes. Look out for this and other books by Gary and Angela Cole…
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