founds a settlement—Robert Harcourt's colony—Ralegh's imprisonment—He is released to again visit Guiana—Disastrous results—Roger North's colony—King James's want of policy—Changes after his death—St. Christopher's and Barbados —North's colony again—The Bahamas—The French and Dutch settlements—Rise of the Dutch—The French and English at St. Christopher's.

 
V   Buccaneers, Filibusters, and Pirates 90-112 The buccaneers of Hispaniola—Tortuga—Bay of Campeachy—Privateers turning pirates—Pierre Legrand—Captains de Basco and Brouage—Captain Lawrence—Montbar the "Exterminator"—Lolonois—Morgan storms and captures Panama—He settles down in Jamaica—Van Horn—Raid on the South Sea—Lionel Wafer's journey across the Isthmus.  
VI   War in the Young Colonies 113-136 Spanish raids—Effects of the "Great English Revolution"—The Caribbee Islands in revolt—Cavaliers and Roundheads in Barbados—Charles the Second declared king—Lord Willoughby arrives with a Commission from the fugitive—Persecution of the Roundheads—Sir George Ayscue sent out with a fleet to reduce Barbados—The island blockaded—Its surrender—Surinam held for the king—Cromwell and Spain—The Expedition to St. Domingo—Capture of Jamaica—Colonisation of the island—The Council for foreign plantations.  
VII   The Planters and their Slaves 137-159 First adventurers not agriculturalists—Slaves wanted—Negroes imported—Sugar—Cotton—Tobacco—First plantations—Kidnapping—Prisoners transported—English slave-trade—Comparative cost of negroes and whites—Rebels—Story of Henry Pitman—Condition of the bond-servants—Life of the planter—Dangers of the voyage—Jamaica—Slavery in Africa—Treatment of the West Indian slave.  
VIII   The Struggle for Supremacy 160-183 Trade disputes between England and Holland—War—The buccaneers employed—Repulse of De Ruyter at Barbados—Capture of Dutch colonies by English—The French drive the English from St. Kitt's—Abortive attempts for its recapture—Peace of Breda—The value of the buccaneers to Jamaica—Character of the three nations now contending for supremacy—Case of Surinam—English refused permission to leave with their slaves—War again—Peace of Westminster and the exodus from Surinam—Case of Jeronomy Clifford—Sir Henry Morgan represses buccaneering—Another war—Du Casse and the Corsairs—Jacques Cassard—Curious position of Berbice—Cassard takes Curaçao—His downfall.  
IX   The Struggle for the Darien Trade 184-206 Carthagena and Porto Bello fairs—The trade of the Isthmus—The joint-stock mania—William Paterson and the Darien scheme—Caledonia and New Edinburgh founded—Destruction of the colony—The Assiento contract—The Great South Sea Bubble—Vain attempts of the English to obtain free trade with the Spanish provinces—Attacks on the logwood cutters of Campeachy—War with Spain—Contraband traders and their losses—Captain Jenkins' ear—Another war with Spain—Admiral Vernon takes Porto Bello—His failure at Carthagena—English exploits.  
X   Slave Insurrections and Bush Negroes 207-236 Sufferings of the planters from war—Barbados alone as having never fallen to the enemy—Internal difficulties—Ferocity of slaves and cruelty of their punishments—The Maroons of Jamaica and bush negroes in Guiana—Slave insurrections—Abortive plots in Barbados—Troubles in Jamaica—Revolt in Antigua—The great slave insurrection in Berbice—The whites driven from the colony—Haunts of the Guiana bush negroes—Surinam in continual fear of their raids—Expeditions sent against them—Treaties—Great insurrection in Jamaica and suppression of the Maroons.  
XI   The Sovereignty of the Seas 237-255 Downfall of Spain—England and France—Contraband traffic of the Dutch and Danes—Advantages of neutrality—The Jews in the islands—They support the buccaneers—The great war—England against the world—Admiral Rodney—His abortive fights with De Guichen—The training of his fleet—He captures St. Eustatius and confiscates private property—Capture of Demerara—Outcry against Rodney—British disasters—Rodney appears again—His decisive victory over De Grasse—Peace and its results—The great struggle with France and her allies—British supremacy—Peace of Amiens—War again—Nelson in the West Indies—The American war—Decline of the plantations from the abolition of the slave-trade.  
XII   Downfall of Hispaniola 256-275 Results of the French Revolution—The friends of the blacks—The rights of man—Civil disabilities of free coloured people—Agitation in the French colonies—James Ogé—Demand of the coloured people for equal rights—Civil war in Hispaniola—"Perish the colonies"—Great slave insurrection—The whites concede equal rights, but the Convention revokes their original decree—Truce broken—The struggle renewed—Devastation of the colony—The British expedition and its failure—Toussaint L'Ouverture—Slavery abolished—It is re-established by Napoleon—Treachery to L'Ouverture and the negroes—Dessalines and Christophe declare the independence of Hayti—Massacre of the whites—The Empire and Republic.  
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