https://archive.org/details/tobago

The Changing Society of Tobago, 1838-1938: A Fractured Whole by Susan E. Craig-James

Topics
#Tobago, #historyofTobago, #TrinidadTobago, #TrinidadandTobago, #socialhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #sugarplantations, #agriculture, #abolitionofslavery, #plantationeconomy, #plantationeconomies

Volume I: 1838-1900
Volume II: 1900-1938

Johnny cakes (fried dumplings) were originally called 'Journey cakes' because they were packed as lunches or snacks to sustain enslaved Africans in Jamaica on their long journeys. Now, they're a traditional Jamaican breakfast side dish.

#Food
#Jamaica
#JamaicanHistory
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanHistory

Happy Emancipation Day, Barbados 🇧🇧

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvaBvTfgR3c/

#Barbados
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanHistory
#EmancipationDay

Listen to this radio interview with Professor Leo Douglas on the Reimagining Nanny documentary he produced: the story of Queen Nanny, a wise woman, healer, and protector of the springs, forests and watersheds of the Blue and John Crow Mountains of Jamaica.

https://jis.gov.jm/radio_programs/reimagining-nanny-her-sword-a-seed/

#Jamaica
#ReimaginingNanny
#JamaicanHistory
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanHistory

Check out this innovative project!

According to Dr. Schuyler Esprit, the interactive database includes "works from 1800 to the present and is searchable by author, country, language and genre, with special visualizations for publication locations and notations for translations."

https://createcaribbean.org/vcl/home/

#Caribbean
#CaribbeanBooks
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanStudies
#CaribbeanHistory
#Books
#Bookstodon
#Digital

An in-depth, virtual presentation on the contribution of "Great Black Women in Caribbean History" will be held on March 4, 2023.

Details, Zoom registration, and ticket information: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__8csq0ADT2aHquaSE0_SKw

#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackHistory
#CaribbeanHistory
#BlackWomen
#Caribbean
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

For Women’s History Month, “Reimagining Queen Nanny of the Maroons” will provide an opportunity to learn more about Jamaica’s National Heroine, the Maroons, and their Afro-Indigenous legacy. The Zoom webinar event is free and open to the public.

Details and Zoom registration: https://events.nyu.edu/event/313190-1

#WomensHistoryMonth
#Jamaica
#JamaicanMaroons
#JamaicanHistory
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanHistory
#AfricanDiaspora
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

A book for #histodons and #musicians: Jason Wilson, "King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land: The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae" (2020)

#reggae #music #Toronto #Canada #CdnHist #CaribbeanHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

https://www.ubcpress.ca/king-alphas-song-in-a-strange-land

A good exercise this #BlackHistoryMonth is to try and find connections in #BlackHistory in the US and Abroad.

Despite some of the Diaspora Wars we witness, Black Americans are important to anti-colonial movements in the Caribbean and countries we've immigrate like Canada, France, and the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwkMLefpAk

#BlackMusic #CaribbeanMusic #Music #BlackMastodon #CaribbeanHistory #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse

Some people have an interest in learning about other Black folks across the Diaspora, but don't know where to start.

If you are looking to expand your knowledge of #BlackHistory to beyond the countries you live, #BlackWomenRadicals
is a great source of jumping off points.

Caribbean Feminism: A Reading List
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/caribbean-feminisms-a-reading-list

#BlackMastodon #AfricanHistory #CaribbeanHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse

Related to an earlier post mentioning indentured servitude I just want to post a documentary.

Coolies: How Britain Re-Invented Slavery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cncg3yhWPI

A lot of different communities have experienced indentured servitude, but how it looked really depended on where you were from, and where you ended up. In some places, conditions were similar to slavery, in other places that comparison would be inappropriate.

#CaribbeanHistory #History #BritishHistory #IndianHistory #Colonialism

Imake a conscious effort to learn about groups I am not a part of. I don't think it's right to say you care about a group while knowing nothing about their histories.

In the Caribbean, people who are from all over. Those of us with ancestors forced over from Africa, Indentured servants brought over from India, people from the region since time immemorial.

A group that doesn't get much attention are Chinese-Caribbean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLlXj0wwjg

#CaribbeanHistory #Caribbean #History

SAVE THE DATE: Friday, February 3, 2023, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. for a conversation with Grenadian scholars and community practitioners on the country's history and the US invasion 40 years ago.

The event is free. You can attend in-person or online.

More details: https://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/offices/provost/fourth-space/programming/2023/02/03/what-can-grenada-teach-us.html

#Grenada
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanHistory
#BlackHistory
#BlackMastodon

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

Asquith Xavier (1920-1980)

Born in Dominica 🇩🇲 and moved to the UK after WW2. He was denied a job as a train guard at a station due to the colour bar. The Race Relations Act of 1965 did not apply to the workplace. With community support, he got the job. In 1968 the Race Relations Act was extended to housing, employment, and public services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uualo1KW3no

#CaribbeanHistory #History #UK #BlackTrainPorters #Dominica #Caribbean #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

Canada's Version of The Help | The West Indian Domestic Scheme
Girl, You Haven't Heard?? | True Crime & Black History

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/canadas-version-of-the-help-the-west-indian-domestic-scheme/id1585227039?i=1000591243110

Podcast by Jayda Hope
@girlyouhaventheard on TikTok
@jaydahope on youtube

In Canada we're taught white mythology as history. Jayda Hope does an excellent job at introducing some of the hidden histories in Canada.

#History #CaribbeanHistory #CanadianHistory #BlackHistory

Some information on Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/cesaire-aime-1913-2008/

Two pieces of work are in my consideration must-reads.

A discourse on Colonialism. Which is extremely effective at describing what Colonialism is and the dehumanization that comes with it.

The second is Notebook of a Return to a Native Land mentioned in the article.

#Caribbean #CaribbeanHistory #BlackHistory #Martinique #BlackMastodon #Decolonialism #AntiColonialism #BlackPoets #BlackAuthors

https://archive.org/details/west-indies-patterns

The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 by David Watts

Topics
#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #geography, #historicalgeography, #genocide, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #antiblackness, #translatlanticslavetrade, #whitesupremacy, #imperialism, #colonialism, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #amerikas, #northamerika, #plantations, #plantationeconomy, #sugarplantations, #environmentalgeography, #slavesocieties, #ecology

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted.

https://archive.org/details/indigenous-caribbean

Indigenous Languages of the Caribbean by Mervyn C. Alleyne

Topics
#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #Caribbeanlinguistics, #sociolinguistics, #genocide, #colonialism, #europeancolonialism, #europeanimperialism, #indigenouspeoples, #SocietyforCaribbeanLinguistics, #linguistics

"Keynote Address delivered by Professor Emeritus Mervyn C. Alleyne at the opening of the 14th biannual conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics on Wednesday 14 August 2002, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago"

A talk given by Dr Leslie Alexander @LeslieAlex

Fear of the Black Republic: U.S.-Haitian Relations in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution

"Now the roots of US policy towards Haiti stemmed back to 1791, shortly after the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution. When George Washington's administration contributed significant funds to assist French planters in their fight against the Black rebels."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bc9XJTXHqE

#BlackHistory #History #BlackMastodon #Caribbean #CaribbeanHistory #Haiti

Sugar Cane Alley, written and directed by Euzhan Palcy takes place in the 1930s, and is a very good depiction of the stories our parents and grandparents told us about life after slavery.

Whether it was cane, coconut, banana, pineapple, etc pay attention to the dynamics in the film.

https://letterboxd.com/film/sugar-cane-alley/

#BlackFilm #Caribbean #CaribbeanHistory #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #History