At the end of the quotation, when the author says “Island” he refers to England. This excerpt refers to the fact that the English people took a great amount of land as its colonies between the 16th and 18th centuries. The British Empire and its Colonial Department was settled in England, which is and Island.
And the author states that it is absurd that a quite smaller island would govern a continent as big as Africa.
 
        
             
        
        
        
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3, the use of bartering to trade goods instead of money. 
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I honestly think it was a moving period in American history. African Americans, though treated inhumanly, chose to respect the lives of others and held marches, and non-violent protests against white law. Meanwhile, you have a band of white Americans creating the Klu Klux Klan to invoke terror and use violence to scare the Colored Americans into doing what they want, to remain below them.