Walter Adolphe Roberts, historian, poet novelist, journalist and patriot was born 1886 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was the son of Adolphus Roberts a clergyman Curate of the Kingston Parish Church, Chaplain at Port Royal and Rector at Luidas Vale. His mother Josephine Fannie (nee Napier), was of French ancestry. Walter Adolphe spent his early years at his home near Mandeville, Manchester where he received his early education. He was entirely educated by private tutors, mostly his father. He spoke both French and Spanish which assisted him in his many travels to France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Latin America , the U.S.A. and Britain.
Contents:
I. Adam's Will
II.El Dorado
III. In the Lesser Antilles
IV. Tortuga and the Buccaneers
V. From Poincy to Ogeron
VI. The Colonies Take Form
VII. Illustrious Du Casse
VIII. Pere Dutertre and Pere Labat
IX. On the Gulf Coast
X. The Mississippi Bubble
XI.Battledore and Shuttlecock
XII. Opulent Saint Domingue
XIII. Josephine's Tropics
XIV. The Code Noir
XV. Louisiana under the French
XVI. The Battle of the Saintes
XVII. The French Revolution
XVIII. The Black Revolution
XIX. Leclerc's Debacle
XX. The Brigands' War
XXI. France and the Spanish Colonies
XXII. "Peace Reigned"
XXIII. Napoleon III and the Confederacy
XXIV. The Mexican Adventure
XXV. Scheming for Canals
XXVI. Under the Third Republic
XXVII. Franco-American Louisiana
XXVIII. All Around the Caribbean
XXIX. The Twentieth Century, up to 1942
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