[Marxism] Miskitos and Primitive Communism

[Christopher Carrico <ccarrico@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, this should read "Berrio's of the Orinoco."  Antonio
de Berrio's nemesis was Walter Ralegh, and the title of
Ralegh's book in Spanish was El descubrimiento del grande,
rico y bello imperio de Guayana.  Maybe that's where the
slip "Bello" came from.  Just thought I'd correct myself
before someone else did...

>       Most likely, Old World diseases reached the Guianas
>during the sixteenth century, in the wake of Orellana's
>ravaging of the Amazon and Bello's of the Orinoco, but
>the decisive moment came as Dutch, English, French, and
>Portuguese merchants and planters dispossessed Amerindians
>from much of the Guiana coastal plains in order to
>establish a system of plantation slavery.

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