{"product_id":"black-caribs-garifuna-saint-tomas-alberto-avila-9781928810285","title":"Black Caribs - Garifuna Saint Vincent' Exiled People: The Roots Of The Garifuna","description":"The story begins in South America, where people who spoke Arawak-an Amerindian language fashioned a culture based on yuca or cassava farming, hunting and fishing in a dense forest cut by many rivers. By the year 1000 AD some of them had moved up the Orinoco River to the Caribbean Sea and it's islands, where they established a new way of life. Later other people, whom history has called \"Caribs\", moved into the Caribbean out of the same areas. The Caribs welcomed and protected the Negro refugees, and in time allowed them to marry the Caribs. The Africans then adopted the languages, culture and traditions of the Yellow Island Caribs. The intermarriage brought about a rapid growth of hybrid mixture of African and Yellow Indians Caribs. From this union arose a half-bred race possessing some Caribs and African characteristics to which the name Garifuna or Black Carib was given.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomas Alberto Avila\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1928810284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781928810285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milenio Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.79d","brand":"Tomas Alberto Avila","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978806853887,"sku":"9781928810285","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3ffb8be4-9f65-40e8-99e1-3810f325dc6f.jpg?v=1683243098","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-caribs-garifuna-saint-tomas-alberto-avila-9781928810285","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}