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E-book More Than Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean

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In early May 1901, the colonial authorities in Kingstown, capital of the island of St Vincent, then a British colony in the Lesser Antilles, were taken by surprise by requests from the Carib populations living on the flanks of Mount La Soufrière to be removed to the south of the island. They were afraid of the increasing frequency of small earthquakes in the area. Stories had been circulating about the volcano being on the verge of going off, which the colony’s government treated as mere hearsay and superstition.1Mild tremors were common in the region, thus, for colonial authorities and the white population in general, there was nothing to worry about. (On the other hand, Afro-descendent workers in the sugar economy were very con-cerned about the Caribs’ warnings.) This came amid a deep economic crisis. Most of the island’s approximately 41,000 inhabitants lived in pov-erty, the sugar sector – by far the biggest employer – was in decline and land was concentrated in the hands of just five companies. Four years earlier, a massive hurricane swept through the island, leaving 225 people dead and nearly half the island’s population homeless. The catastrophe had helped the colonial government put into practice an ambitious agri-cultural diversification plan that had not yet yielded results.2Mild tremors continued to be felt throughout the first quarter of 1902 until, on 13 April, a very intense shake was felt in the village of Owia at the island’s northern end. Towards the end of the month, the tremors became more frequent and severe; eighteen of them came to be felt in just twenty-four hours. Furthermore, alarming news arrived from other places in the Caribbean and surrounding areas. Tremors were known to be occur-ring in Martinique, a French colony less than 200 kilometres to the north.

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970.04 DIO m

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London : University of London Press., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

303 hlm

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English

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9781915249524

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970.04

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computer

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online resource

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History of North America at 1800 - 1899

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