The People Who Came Book 1 by Alma Norman and Edward Brathwaite

The People Who Came is an established and highly popular three book history course for lower forms in Caribbean Secondary schools. Book One covers the early history of the Amerindian population of the Americas and of the African, Indian, Chinese and European people who later came to the Caribbean islands. In a lively and direct style it describes the way in which ordinary men, women and children lived in these various socities in the past. The book is lavishly illustrated with colour maps and photographs. At the end of each chapter there is a wide range of questions and activities designed both to test knowledge and to stimulate further enquiry and thought. This new edition has been fully updated to give teachers and students the benefit of the latest historical findings.