Chapter 1 Original Peoples -- chapter 2 The Coming of Columbus -- chapter 3 The Northern European Challenge to Spain -- chapter 4 The Africans: Long Night of Enslavement -- chapter 5 The Enslaved and the Manumitted: Human Beings in Savage Surroundings -- chapter 6 The Big Fight Back: Resistance, Marronage, Proto-States -- chapter 7 The Big Fight Back: Suriname and Jamaica -- chapter 8 The Big Fight Back: From Rebellion to Haitian Revolution -- chapter 9 Emancipation: Help From Europe, Final Push From the Enslaved -- chapter 10 After Emancipation: Obstacles and Progress -- chapter 11 Immigration in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- chapter 12 The Caribbean and Africa Through the Early Twentieth Century -- chapter 13 The United States and the Caribbean to World War II -- chapter 14 Twentieth Century to World War II: Turbulent Times -- chapter 15 World War II to Century's End -- chapter 16 Prognosis.