But a lot of it was occupied by estates, by the Loyalist families who had settled plantations in the West Indies , and in Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua, and the rest, and found the climate unsupportable for raising families, began to establish second homesin Rhode Island, and on the Mystic River in Massachusetts, and on the Charles River around the 1750s.
He's written a bunch of western novels that did pretty well. The indies started long ago.
He just gets away with so much egregious shit, it's extraordinary. the Dutch East Indies .
The theory was that these infused into alcohol would extract the oils and the properties, preserve them, because they were going on long journeys to the West Indies . And this guy here was a Dutch university professor who was the first person accredited with making gin.
was set in a different setting it was set in um the West Indies and it was uh set in the 19th century it's a sort of a pasti of
different bookstores you'll find that they a lot of them serve as community forums these days especially the indies but also the big ones like barnes and noble and by by holding uh author uh talks and readings and so on and then
Now, back in Tudor's day, his work was finally paying off. The cafe owners in the West Indies started asking him for more and more ice, and he realized that he could increase his profits, just by refining his methods.
Why the pope felt he had authority to divide the world is another whole topic. So Spain quickly pushed into the West Indies , Mexico, and South America. They plundered, they extracted precious metals at a ferocious rate.
for people of the Earth, hand-to-mouth people. So it's lifted from the West Indies . It's lifted from history of slaves.
and decades that most of us are unaware of. Slavery in the British West Indies , which ends in 1834, is already, I would say, moribund by the early 1800s.
And this guy here was a Dutch university professor who was the first person accredited with making gin. Sent it to the West Indies . He thought that by clearing the bladder, it would clear the bloodstream-- or the body-- of dengue fever and yellow fever, and all the other tropical diseases they
The full extent of Diderot's influence was not known, however, until a young German academic, Herbert Dieckmann, located the final lost cache of Diderot's writings. for the "Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies ," which was the best-selling critical examination of European colonization.
They were slave owners. Many of them had planta-- sugar plantations in the West Indies , brought their slaves from there. These were all sort of gentlemen's plantations.
Maybe I'll get a whole pig and I want to do barbecue night. And maybe I want to focus on the West Indies or show my cooks why a certain technique is important.
And so many capitalists in Massachusetts insisted on, although they would have no slaves themselves Even when the British abolished slavery in the West Indies , although the slave masters complained, that they didn't get enough money, they were given money.
And molasses is coming from the Caribbean. But it's supposed to come mostly from the British West Indies , but it's coming back from the French West Indies . How do we know this?
So here's how this question was phrased in 1973. Ralph Richards was a university – he was a British-trained diabetes specialist who went to Jamaica in the early 1960s, founded a diabetes clinic at the University of the West Indies , and in the early 70s reported that a third of the women over 25 were obese and that obesity reached what he called "monstrous proportions" in this age group. And he said, "It's difficult to explain the high frequency of obesity seen in a relatively impecunious society such as exists in the West Indies ,
He later described it as, "The winter of my discontent," but during that time, he had a revelation. The reason demand wasn't picking up was because the people of the West Indies didn't know what to do with ice. So, all he had to do, he reasoned, was make them understand by offering them some refreshing drinks.
we'd all travel down-- me, my mom, my dad, my mom's seven brothers and sisters, and all their family. Because a lot of my dad's family still lived in the West Indies , in Nevis. So we'd have a campsite of all of our clan and then me.
Dr. Aarathi was born in London and educated in the West Indies and the UK.
He realized that to create a sustainable, long-term, on-site business venture they needed the full range of human skills. Well, it certainly could of because of the Spanish were in the West Indies from the beginning of you know, 1512 they go in to Mexico.
He realized that to create a sustainable, long-term, on-site business venture they needed the full range of human skills. And the Spanish basically just went in and marauded and killed and subjugated and took over in the West Indies and Mexico
So my father, who was born in Jamaica in the West Indies ,
and decades that most of us are unaware of. I guess, for the British system in the West Indies , you'll probably have to look at how that related to industrialization in Britain more,
Obviously growing up in London, and the nature of the slave trade in the West Indies , and how that affected not only that area, but then also Britain
So it's being boycotted at retail by all of Barnes & Noble and a lot of indies .
But there are some stores, like Hastings and a handful of indies throughout the country, that do carry it.
Up to this point, trips from Europe to the Indies had taken Eastern water routes. They had very often taken parallels overland routes and here the idea was sail west. A strategy
But to the investors, this plan seemed ridiculous. Tudor wrote, "People only laugh when I tell them I'm going to carry ice to the West Indies ," which is understandable because the journey would take three weeks, sailing through warm seas under the blazing Caribbean sun.
And now, Tudor was ready to bet his fortune on these ancient principles. So, he mortgaged land on his family estate to buy a ship, and he began modifying it for the long journey to the West Indies . - He did that by building out a cargo hole in a ship that was built similarly to the ice houses.
The humanitarian activist Roger Casement said that, "It was first called 'India Rubber,' because it came from the Indies , and the earliest European use of it was to rub out or erase.
So there's been a massive change, absolutely huge, and I'm really, really glad about it. So I've got my 24-year-old that's Surinamese and then my mix, which is half, if you want to say half, half West Indies , half good old Yorkshire.
And then there was no, you're in first place and last place because, again, in the West Indies , that's what they did.
Clearly, you're a Hall of Famer in that sport, but situate what that means externally. Australian cricket, obviously my family is from the West Indies , so I
He just gets away with so much egregious shit, it's extraordinary. The Japanese navy is obviously on the sea, and it wants to continue pushing through by sea through Southeast Asia, to the Dutch East Indies ,
the Amazon rainforest, the rainforests of the Congo and Central Africa, the rainforest archipelago of the East Indies .
He goes there. And then in February-- interesting-- 26, 1638 we have this notation in Winthrop's diary. "Mr. Pierce in the Salem ship the Desire, returned from the West Indies after seven months. He had been at Providence, and brought some cotton, and tobacco, and Negroes, from thence." This is the first record, written record,
And so many capitalists in Massachusetts insisted on, although they would have no slaves themselves And some historians have actually described-- they separate what they call slave societies, like the South before the Civil War, all of the West Indies .
a diabetes clinic at the University of the West Indies , and in the early 70s reported that a third of the women over 25 were obese and that obesity reached what he called "monstrous proportions" in this age group. And he said, "It's difficult to explain the high frequency of obesity seen in a relatively impecunious society such as exists in the West Indies , when compared to the standard of living enjoyed in the more developed countries." He's asking the same question I'm asking and we all should be asking. If poor people are
I, uh -- I was on my boat and I sailed into a little harbor on an island called St. Bartholomew in the French West Indies where I kind of live off and on and have for a while.
I actually spend my time, uh, between Florida and up on the eastern Long Island and down in the French West Indies .