#caribbeanhistory — Public Fediverse posts

The Second Journey: The Intra-American Slave Trade and the Expansion of Human Bondage

https://startingwithme869.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/the-second-journey-the-intra-american-slave-trade-and-the-expansion-of-human-bondage/

🎥 NEW EPISODE: "Palenques, Part 2" is now up on the Vecinos History channel!

https://tilvids.com/w/1cbcPGnWUjBeaKiXt7Veca

Like Episode 01, this one is in-depth. The story of Le Maniel isn't well-known outside of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Please boost to help federate this new channel!

#history #histodons #video #haiti #republicadominicana #dominicanrepublic #caribbean #caribbeanhistory #blackhistory

Port Royal had everything pirates could ask for: rum, riches, shady deals, and a perfect Caribbean location. Discover how this notorious port became one of piracy’s most infamous havens.
https://www.patlubeck.com/why-port-royal-became-a-pirate-haven-in-the-caribbean/
#PortRoyal #PirateHistory #CaribbeanHistory #Pirates

Stanley Cunningham Adams: My Great-Granduncle. From St. Kitts to New York City, A Family Story of Migration and Service

https://startingwithme869.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/uncle-stanley-cunningham-adams-and-the-pullman-porters/

Curacao Chronicle: Carmabi Nears Completion of Major Digitization Project Preserving 70 Years of Caribbean Heritage. “Carmabi is nearing the completion of a major project to digitize 70 years of valuable documents, photographs, and research reports from its library collection, making unique information about the nature and history of Curaçao and the other Caribbean islands accessible online to […]

African Journey: Threads of Survival, Suffering, and Strength

https://startingwithme869.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/african-journey/

Amazing Grace: St. Kitts and the Turning Point of a Complicated Legacy

https://startingwithme869.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/amazing-grace-st-kitts-and-the-turning-point-of-a-complicated-legacy/

San Juan Daily Star: CENCOR launches islandwide survey to map Puerto Rico cultural heritage.. “The Puerto Rico Center for Conservation and Restoration (CENCOR) has released a new study and survey effort aimed at producing the most comprehensive snapshot to date of the cultural heritage field in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, an area the organization says has long lacked integrated, systematic […]

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.

She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.

“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons

From rusted anchors to hand-thrown harpoons, the Bequia Whaling Museum preserves a deeply local story—one of skill, sea, and survival.

#Bequia #CaribbeanHistory #WhalingHeritage #MaritimeMuseum #SVGHistory

https://islandinthenet.com/visiting-the-bequia-whaling-museum/

Visiting the Bequia Whaling Museum

From rusted anchors to hand-thrown harpoons, the Bequia Whaling Museum preserves a deeply local story—one of skill, sea, and survival.

https://islandinthenet.com/visiting-the-bequia-whaling-museum/

Am Internationalen Tag der #Tropen erinnern wir daran, wie beschwerlich & gefährlich für ihre Körper & Gesundheit Europäer*innen einst das Leben dort beschrieben haben:

▶ Annika Raapke, Zusammen sind wir schwach? Kranke Körper und Vergemeinschaftung in der französischen #Karibik des 18. Jh., #WerkstattGeschichte 78/2018, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-78-annika-raapke/

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #TropicsDay #Kolonialgeschichte #Körpergeschichte #PrizePapers #CaribbeanHistory #FrenchHistory #18thCentury

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I then came upon the conservative historian Robert Tombs claiming that shoddy historical research had led notable British institutions into error regarding their past involvement wit slavery:

>>Does the term "South Sea Annuity" ring a bell? There is no reason why it should. It is a recondite feature of eighteenth-century government finances, when Britain, engaged in the "Second Hundred Years War" with France, was borrowing unprecedented sums to sustain global conflict. Yet misconstruing this term has turned out to be probably the most expensive historical error in modern British history. It is set to cost the Church Commission at least 100 million [pounds sterling] and severe reputational damage. The University of Cambridge has also certainly spent a considerable sum and has damaged its own international reputation in part by making the same error. How could this have come about?<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229777/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=6e3faa82

Tombs is challenged about the "misconstruction" of "South Sea Annuity" in a waspish letter from Richard Drayton in a subsequent issue of the TLS:

>>It is so nice to see my old Cambridge colleague Robert Tombs turning his hand in retirement to British history and culture war. I appreciate that, not being familiar with eighteenth-century sources, nor with economic history, some things might not be immediately clear to him.<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A841611049/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=18a1e0ee

The next week sees the Tombs riposte, with assistance from financial historian Richard Dale:

>>Richard Drayton kindly offers to guide me through the arcana of eighteenth-century finance (Letters, May 23). His letter is, however, a better guide to the confused thinking of the Church Commissioners and their historical advisers, among whom he is prominent... Nothing he writes alters the embarrassing reality: certain historians have given leading institutions wrong information on the nature of their historic investments, and contentious and expensive decisions have been based on historical error.<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A842180062/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=cbe67bcd

Entertaining as this British historiographical bitchery might be, the argument over the significance of the term "South Sea Annuity" should not obscure two important points.

In the first place, Tombs and other conservatives are making these criticisms of the Church Commissioners, Cambridge, and their associated historians less out of a concern for historical accuracy than from a deeply held desire to shelve the entire debate about Britain, slavery, and what is or is not owed to the descendants of those enslaved.

This debate goes astray if the right of former British colonies in the West Indies to reparations for slavery is made to depend either on the discovery of financial benefits accruing to particular British institutions or on the strength or weakness of the Williams thesis, that the Atlantic slave trade and slavery were crucial for the development of British capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. These arguments in financial and economic history should not obscure the larger truth that Britain inflicted a serious injury on people inhabiting and imported to the Caribbean by enslaving them. Regardless of any benefits that might or might not have flowed to Britain, and regardless of the motives and actions of British abolitionists, that injury to those enslaved and their descendants and the moral injury to Britain itself have not been made good. Reparations are therefore a legitimate demand; what form these should take must be a matter of discussion between the British and Caribbean governments. Attempting to dismiss the question by calling attention to errors in detail is an attempt to whitewash an ugly history.

To those who would point out all sorts of societies, including those of Africa, have engaged in slavery, I would argue that Atlantic slavery is distinctive on account of its racialised nature, its connection with the depersonalizing economies of the plantation and of industrial capitalism, its sheer scale, and the depth of its cruelty.

#History #Histodons #AtlanticSlavery #Slavery #RobertTombs #Conservatives #Reparations #WilliamsThesis #CaribbeanHistory

The University of the West Indies Press is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher of books and journals particularly well known for its work in #CaribbeanHistory, #Caribbean cultural studies, Caribbean #Literature, #GenderStudies, #Education and #PoliticalScience: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/UWIPress_Books

Giant land-dwelling croc-like predators survived in the Caribbean millions of years longer than thought. Discover the sebecids' surprising last stand. #FossilDiscovery #PrehistoricPredators #CaribbeanHistory

https://geekoo.news/sebecids-the-caribbeans-unexpected-apex-predators/

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.

She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.

“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons

Barbados Today: UWI expands research accessibility with new digital hub. “The University of the West Indies (UWI) has launched a new website and research forum to expand public access to its extensive research data and projects.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/10/barbados-today-uwi-expands-research-accessibility-with-new-digital-hub/

Virgin Islands Daily News: After the Storm collective to share digital archive project. “The Gri Gri Project will host After the Storm Collective, as a part of the Creative Conversations Series, starting at 7 p.m. Friday at Bajo El Sol Gallery. After the Storm, a microlab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, aims to create digital maps and archives that record the survival of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/09/virgin-islands-daily-news-after-the-storm-collective-to-share-digital-archive-project/

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the provisional president of Haiti, the first woman to hold the role.

She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.

“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons #History

It's #BlackHistoryMonth, and in 2024 I'm reflecting on the fact that although I've known about Walter Rodney and his seminal work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" for years, it wasn't until I started reading it last year that I found out that Rodney was assassinated by his own Guyanese government in a car bombing. He was 38.

I'm obligated to point out to fellow white people, in case you missed it, the trend of white people lionizing a heroic Black person in a show of solidarity while studiously ignoring the vicious violence enacted against that person by the powers that be.

Also, Rodney was banned from Jamaica and from his teaching position at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. This caused protests that escalated to riots in Kingston in 1968. Part of the wave of protests that swept the world from that year to the next.

Anyway, please read Rodney.
And/or about Rodney. https://web.archive.org/web/20041105060409/http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Emarto/pbs/roberts.htm
#books #history #histodons #WalterRodney #Guyana #CaribbeanHistory #PanAfrican #Marxism @histodons

> It was really Toussaint's war. He had to scrounge for supplies, trading coffee and rum to American smugglers for barrels of gunpowder. French republican officials in the colony, despite their speeches about the rights of man and #Toussaint's protestations of loyalty to France, were increasingly uneasy with a black man as the de facto leader of much of the territory. They suspected that he had independence on his mind.
#AdamHochschild in #BuryTheChains #CaribbeanHistory #SlaveRevolt

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

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

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

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"

https://archive.org/details/national-symbols-of-sxm

National Symbols of St. Martin - A Primer by Lasana M. Sekou; Rhoda Arrindell

Topics
#StMartin, #SaintMartin, #SintMaarten, #SXM, #Soualiga, #Swaliga, #Caribbean, #nationalism, #independence, #independencemovements, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean

from the preface: "National Symbols of St. Martin - A Primer records, highlights, and proposes regenerative features of the composite face of St. Martin's natural, popular, and national symbols."

https://archive.org/details/execrable

Report on the Execrable Conspiracy Carried Out by the Amina Negroes on the Danish Island of St. Jan in America, 1733 by Pierre J. Pannet; Aimery P. Caron; Arnold R. Highfield

Topics
#slaverevolt, #slaverebellion, #insurrection, #blackchattelslavery, #danishcolonialism, #danishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #antiblackness, #stjan, #sanktjan, #saintjohn, #virginislands, #usvirginislands, #Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #counterinsurgency, #CoralBay, #danishwestindies, #denmark

Christiansted: Antilles Press

https://archive.org/details/theycalledusbrigands

They Called Us Brigands: The Saga of St. Lucia's Freedom Fighters by Robert J. Devaux; Patrick A.B. Anthony

Topics
#brigandage, #brigands, #Ioüanalao, #Iyonola, #Hewanarau, #Hewanorra, #StLucia, #SaintLucia, #LesserAntilles, #Caribbean, #Martinique, #Guadeloupe, #maroonage, #maroons, #marronage, #blackchattelslavery, #war, #guerrillawarfare, #guerrillawar, #guerrillas, #Caribbeanhistory, #NègMawon, #britishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #colonialism

The Black freedom fighters of the Lesser Antilles became known as “brigands” during the french revolution. Their fascinating story has never been written, perhaps because they have been dismissed as runaway slaves in a state of insurrection. The author believed that history has been unfair to the “brigands”. He felt indebted to them for sparing the life of his great-great-great-grandmother who was left in their care when the rest of the Devaux family fled to Martinique for safety. His gratitude motivated him to attempt to exonerate the “brigands” from the stigma of their history and present them in a different light, as freedom fighters caught up in a desperate situation.

https://archive.org/details/black-rebellion-in-barbados

Black Rebellion In Barbados: The Struggle Against Slavery, 1627-1838 by Hilary Beckles

Topics
#Barbados, #Bajan, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slaverebellions, #slaveuprisings, #slaverevolts, #revolt, #rebellion, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #abolition, #frontiersocieties, #creolization, #creole, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #britishempire, #slavetrade, #laborhistory, #counterinsurgency

"This year (1984) marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formal abolition of slavery in the English-speaking Caribbean and this work is intended to commemorate the occasion.

https://archive.org/details/walterrodney

Walter Rodney, un historien engagé (1942-1980) by Amzat Boukari-Yabara

Topics
#WalterRodney, #Guyana, #Guyanesehistory, #PanAfricanism, #Guyane, #Panafricanisme, #biography, #biographies, #Africanhistory, #Tanzania, #Caribbean, #revolutionaries, #marxism, #marxists, #marxisme, #biographie, #historians, #histoireAfricaine, #historiens, #colonialism, #neocolonialism, #néocolonialisme, #britishcolonialism, #anticolonialism, #anticolonialisme, #Tanzanie, #Caraïbe, #Caraïbes, #Caribbeanhistory, #histoiredesCaraïbes

Ce livre analyse la vie et l’œuvre de l’historien et homme politique de Guyana, Walter Rodney (1942-1980), ses années de formation, ses influences, son idéologie, et son action politique.

Alors que Rodney a fait l’objet d’une demi-douzaine de monographies en anglais, cet ouvrage est le premier travail en français consacré à cet historien anglophone. Il s’adresse autant à un public universitaire travaillant sur les mondes africains qu’à un public « militant » engagé sur les questions de développement et de luttes sociales.