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Despite its natural beauty, Grenada has experienced turbulent political upheavals in the past. Since the coming of Europeans, the Indians who lived there was forced into war to defend their island. It took the Europeans many years before they finally eliminated the Caribs and Arawaks from Grenada.

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Henri Christophe
(pen on paper ... 11x14) 2002.

Henri Christophe was born into slavery on Grenada in 1767. He became the First king in the Western Hemisphere. Christophe left the GRENADA with his parents at an early age and settled in St. Dominique, now Haiti. He later joined forces with the then General George Washington in battles against the British during the American Revolutionary War at Savannah, Georgia. Christophe returned to Haiti and helped liberate his adopted country with the infamous Toussaint L'Ouverture in 1804. After Christophe ascended to the position of President of Haiti, he then later proclaimed himself King Henri I. He died in 1820.

(Available in print&original US$250.00)

French and British colonialists fought for ownership until Britain conquered and won. The travails of the island did not end there. Africans were shipped to work on tobacco, sugarcane and coffee plantations for European merchants. The island prospered, but very little of the wealth stayed in Grenada. The island went through dozens of social and political unrest since and during slavery up until 1983 when thousands of US-military troops intervened to squash a military junta that assassinated several ministers in the ruling government at the time. These days, Grenada is enjoying stability and with the tourism industry booming and nutmeg price at a comfortable rate, there's no reason why the Spice Isle of the West cannot even be spicier than ever.