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  1. French botanist Charles Plumier, born OTD in 1646, made 3 expeditions to the #WestIndies, writing the massive "Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera" and becoming one of the most important botanists of his time cromwell-intl.com/travel/trini #travel

  2. 420 seems like an appropriate score for the #WestIndies to be bowled out for in its first innings against #NewZealand in the third and final test between #NZvWI #cricket.

  3. Well done Devon Conway on making another double 💯 in the 3rd and final test between #NewZealand and #WestIndies in Tauranga. #Cricket #NZvWI

  4. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Curly-tailed lizards ✧

    Curly-tailed lizards (Leiocephalidae) are a family of iguanian lizards found in the West Indies, with extant species in the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. There are presently 30 known species in this family, all of which are members of th...

    #WestIndies #DominicanRepublic #CaicosIslands #Leiocephalidae #Cuba #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curly-ta

  5. French botanist Charles Plumier, who died OTD in 1704, made 3 expeditions to the #WestIndies, wrote the massive "Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera", and became one of the most important botanists of his time cromwell-intl.com/travel/trini #travel

  6. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ black-throated green warbler ✧

    The black-throated green warbler (Setophaga virens) is a small songbird in the New World warbler family, Parulidae. It breeds in coniferous, mixed forests and sometimes cypress swamps in eastern North America and western Canada, with migration to southern Florida, Mexico, Central America, the ...

    #CentralAmerica #WestIndies #NorthAmerica #SouthAmerica #Mexico #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-th

  7. CW: Histoire de la consommation de sucre 🧶

    La consommation de sucre remonte à environ 8 000 avant J.-C. en Nouvelle-Guinée, où les populations autochtones ont domestiqué pour la première fois la canne à sucre en sélectionnant la variété Saccharum robustum. Depuis la Nouvelle-Guinée, la culture de la canne à sucre s'est répandue dans toute l'Asie du Sud-Est, en Chine et en Inde grâce aux commerçants maritimes. La technique de raffinage chimique du sucre est apparue pour la première fois en Inde il y a environ 2 500 ans, et ce savoir s'est répandu vers la Chine, l'Iran et les premiers mondes islamiques.

    « Au XIVe siècle, Chypre et la Sicile étaient devenues d'importantes productrices de sucre pour les Européens. Ce succès a encouragé certains riches à étendre l'industrie sucrière aux îles de l'Atlantique et aux Amériques. À [la fin du XVIe siècle], des quantités croissantes de sucre étaient importées des plantations sucrières ("engenhos") du Brésil. Ces engenhos exigeaient le travail forcé des peuples autochtones et, de plus en plus, des esclaves africain·es, qui travaillaient dans des conditions épouvantables pour broyer la canne à sucre, en extraire le jus et le faire bouillir à haute température afin de produire de la mélasse, qui était ensuite expédiée vers l'Europe dans de grands tonneaux appelés "hogsheads". Les débuts de l'industrie sucrière mondiale constituent une partie importante de l'histoire des débuts de la traite transatlantique des esclaves. »

    Source en anglais : nationalarchives.gov.uk/educat

    La suite de l'histoire est ailleurs dans la même pelote : kolektiva.social/@estelle/1119

    La pelote en anglais : techhub.social/@estelle/114495

    #technique #technoCritique #sucre #accaparementDesTerres #racialisation #cultureDuViol #racismeSystémique #capitalisme #suprémacismeBlanc #histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #Angleterre #RoyaumeUni #GrandeBretagne #Bristol #Liverpool #Londres #extractivisme #accaparement #WestIndies #Caraïbes #carribbean #plantations #Antilles #Caraïbes #Caraïbe #NouveauMonde #Jamaïque #Cuba #Guadeloupe #Martinique #Hispaniola #Haïti #SaintDomingue #PortoRico #Barbade #Amérique #agriculture #Nantes #Bordeaux #lectureDécoloniale #définitionDécoloniale #sucré #bonbons #gastronomie #desserts #consommation

  8. CW: Innovation start-up 🧶

    In "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution", two researchers, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, place slavery and the plantation system at the heart of the development of the British economy in the 18th century. They argue that it was a determining factor in the particular development of British capitalism and the industrial revolution.

    Still slightly behind the Portuguese in the deportation of Africans at the end of the 17th century, between 1751 and 1775 the British accounted for nearly 43% of the transatlantic trafficking, compared with 27% for the Portuguese and 17% for the French.

    The aim was to supply the huge plantations on the many British-controlled islands in the West Indies, such as Jamaica and Barbados, where coffee, tobacco and, above all, sugar were produced. The latter product was at the heart of the primitive capitalist machine set in motion by chattel slavery.

    #humanTrafficking #slavery #capitalism #WestIndies #BritishEmpire #deportation #sugar #Caribbean #book

  9. CW: Chattel slavery for sugar and rum 🧶

    In 1776, Scotsman Adam "Smith noted that the British West Indian sugar plantations were so profitable they their returns from rum exports, a byproduct of sugar production, paid for the entire overhead expenses of a sugar plantation. As far as Smith was concerned, this was an achievement without parallel in eighteen-century British imperial agriculture."

    (excerpt from Seymour Drescher’s book "The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation")

    #AdamSmith #economics #economy #slavery #chattelSlavery #WestIndies #agriBusiness #agriculture #sugar #Caribbean #lineofColor #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #rum #accumulation #transatlantic #trade #slaveTrade #deportation #economics #BritishEmpire #BritishIsles #Tobago #Jamaica #Barbados

  10. In the words of CLR James, this film goes “beyond a boundary” to explain how the West Indies cricket team became the dominant force in world cricket in the 1970s & 1980s. Their dominance was so complete, it’s possible to argue that they were the greatest sporting team of the twentieth century.

    The West Indies fast bowlers were skilful and brutal - it was remarkable that no one was killed - and in Viv Richards the team possessed a sporting genius.

    #Cricket #Sport #WestIndies #Politics #1970s

  11. The Ministry of Education has announced a significant step forward in tertiary education with the official expansion of the University of the #WestIndies (UWI) Five Islands Campus to the Federation of St Kitts and #Nevis. loopnews.com/content/uwi-five-