The Project for a Confederation of the Greater Antilles (separata)

Mathews, Thomas G., The Project for a Confederation of the Greater Antilles, Reprinted from Caribbean Historical Review, Nos. III-IV, December, 1954.

Introduction:

Towards the latter half of the nineteenth century a growing desire for the freedom already realised by sister centres of civilisation to the north, south, and west existed in the Greater Antilles. This dream of independence was closely followed by another more visionary ideal, also inspired by examples in North, South and Central America, for the formation of a Caribbean Confederation, and is closely connected with the struggle for the independence of the islands. It is the purpose of this article to deal only with the development of ideas concerning the Confederation.