"As this commerce in people grew, kidnapping became an everyday thing in London and Bristol. Young girls who had been jailed for disorderly conduct were cordially asked to leave for the West Indies...To be sentenced to forced labour in the New World became so much a part of everyday life that people began to speak of someone having been "barbadosed" -- sentenced to work in Barbados or one of the other Caribbean colonies."

#ToShootHardLabour
#Antigua
#Slavery
#CaribbeanHistory

First book I will read is related to the events before, during and after the military invasion of the United States to Puerto Rico as part of the Spanish-American war in 1898.

I’m trying to connect the stories my grandfather used to tell, inherited from his grandfather to what was happening in Puerto Rico in general.

#PuertoRico #Caribbean #CaribbeanHistory