Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763  

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"Upon his triumphant return to Castile, Columbus urged Isabella and Ferdinand to permit enslavement of “these cannibals, a people very savage and suitable for the purpose, and well-made and of very good intelligence.""--Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763 (2010) by Philip P. Boucher

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Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763 (2010) is a book by Philip P. Boucher.

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Philip P. Boucher analyzes the images and the realities of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations.

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