Remove the spaces from the following sentence: Our claim is that the people of the West Indies are themselves a monument, since by and large they are descendants of the Afro-Caribbeans who were the founders of the colony and the creators of its structure.
OurclaimisthatthepeopleoftheWestIndiesarethemselvesamonument,sincebyandlargetheyaredescendantsoftheAfro-Caribbeanswhowerethefoundersofthecolonyandthecreatorsofitsstructure.