Abstract

The conception of the Antillean Confederation and, more than this, of the struggle for certain degrees of unity in the Insular Caribbean, is an idea long cherished by many of the most illustrious intellectuals and politicians of these lands in the last two centuries. It is not, under any circumstances, a strange idea, but an idea based on the reality of a set of peoples in formation, that as early as in the beginning of the second third of the eighteenth century they made the priest exclaim French Jean Baptiste Labat, tireless traveler through the Caribbean ".