Talk:History of Saint Lucia

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For years after this, the island was official traded back and forth between the English and the French in various treaties, as a bargaining of only naked ladies. Is the phrase "only naked ladies" an obscure idiom, a typo, or a prank? If a legitimate idiom, perhaps a less idiomatic and more universally understandable phrase should be substituted. jchristopher 07:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The article was vandalized, I have restored it to the original text: "traded back and forth between the English and the French in various treaties, as a bargaining chip." jwillburtalk 15:23, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

partisan tone?
The section about the Caribs and the Brigands is poorly written and unsourced, and it displays a rather bitter partisan tone that seems inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Is it really likely that "The Caribs were usually generous until attacked or deceived"? (If they were so pleasant and peace-loving, how and why did they displace the Arawaks?) What do we mean by saying "Today called St. Lucia, much of the island's population are unaware of the valued contribution to what we today call 'freedom'"? It's a bizarre sentence, a non-sequitur, in that it doesn't clearly follow from the discussion of the Caribs. It also has a dangling participle and unnecessarily sarcastic punctuation. The next two sentences are even worse: "They [sic] Europeans called these freedon [sic] fighters the Brigands, who were of African and sometimes mixed African-Arawak heritage. Many Brigands still occupy the forests and surrounding areas where they still challenge injustice against them and their indigenous counterparts."

I'd say the whole section should be either rewritten (with sources) or deleted. 65.213.77.129 (talk) 15:29, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree entirely. Pirate Dan (talk) 21:28, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Who is "De Rousselan"?
In the 17th century, it says "De Rousselan was appointed the island's governor, took a Carib wife and remained in post until his death in 1654." Who is "De Rousselan"? Why is he mentioned by last name when he is not introduced by full name anywhere in the article? Even if he in mononymous, there should be some explanation of who he is. Probablynoteworthy (talk) 17:09, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

What Vatican globe of 1502?
I have not been able to confirm that "the island is included on a globe in the Vatican made in 1502". The site https://stampaday.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/saint-lucia-49-1902/ claims that "there is no known globe in the Vatican Library from the early 1500s". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gianluca Gorni (talk • contribs) 10:51, 28 August 2017 (UTC)