Original Peoples -- The Coming of Columbus -- The Northern European Challenge to Spain -- The Africans : Long Night of Enslavement -- The Enslaved and the Manumitted : Human Strivings in Savage Surroundings -- The Big Fight Back : Resistance, Marronage, Proto-States -- The Big Fight Back : Suriname and Jamaica -- The Big Fight Back : From Rebellion to Haitian Revolution -- Emancipation : Help from Europe, Final Push from the Enslaved -- After Emancipation : Obstacles and Progress -- Immigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- The Caribbean and Africa Through the Early 20th Century -- The United States and the Caribbean to World War II -- Twentieth Century to World War II : Turbulent Times -- World War II to Century's End -- Prognosis.