From Columbus to CastroBy: Eric Williams The first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it's about millions of people scattered across an arc of islands Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage.