Unrest in Caribbean has roots in slavery past: "POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AP): Protests that have nearly shut down the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are not just about demands for lower prices and higher wages: For demonstrators they are no less than a battle against the vestiges of slavery.
Afro-Caribbean islanders - most of whose forbears toiled in the sugarcane fields under the yoke of slavery more than 160 years ago _ not only resent France's handling of the global economic crisis, they have long resented that slaveholders' descendants control the economy on both islands."
Afro-Caribbean islanders - most of whose forbears toiled in the sugarcane fields under the yoke of slavery more than 160 years ago _ not only resent France's handling of the global economic crisis, they have long resented that slaveholders' descendants control the economy on both islands."
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