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No slaves meant almost no sugar production, until the first of some 80,000 Hindus from India and 16,000 free Africans began arriving as contract workers for Guadeloupe and Martinique plantations.
This 150-year history of a black Martinique family garnered France's prestigious Prix Goncourt.
During the American War of Independence, France’s sympathies were undisguised: American ships were granted safe anchorage in the FWI, privateers raiding from Saint-Barthélemy’s coves sank many a British merchantman, and a Martinique regiment fought the British at Savannah, Georgia.
Perhaps 2,000 years ago, Indians sometimes called “Saloides” from the Orinoco basin in South America began migrating up the Antilles chain, reaching Martinique and Guadeloupe before a.d. 200.
A volcanic eruption on Martinique prevented these early island-hoppers from staying long; they soon vanished from history, leaving only the scantiest archaeological traces.