In response to the overwhelming desire for information from students and teachers from around the world, we have made available material on our Heroes used by Jamaican lower secondary students.
I am about eighteen years old. I was a slave belonging to Mr. Senior and his sister, and was brought up at the place where they live, called Penshurst, in Saint Ann's parish, in Jamaica.
The notoriety of the buccaneers, whose infamy gave them the title "Scourge of the Spanish Main," has obscured the reputation of the Maroons, who played a lesser known but equally significant role in the colorful romance of the West Indies. While
They were the terror of Jamaica once -- fierce bands of escaped slaves who plundered estates, murdered white planters and repelled invasions of their mountain retreats with a terrifying mastery of camouflage.
His mother was a slave on a Caribbean plantation, but Chevalier de Saint-Georges became a classical composer, violinist and conductor in France. The Web site includes a biographical essay, a bibliography and a CD list.
Celebrates the rich, Africancentric culture and rhythmic beauty of the Bahamas' Junkanoo Carnival, introduced to the island by the ex-slave ancestors. Includes reviews of Junkanoo literature and periodicals, a travel writer's Junkanoo Journal,
Europeans came into contact with the Caribbean after Columbus's momentous journeys in 1492, 1496 and 1498. The desire for expansion and trade led to the settlement of the colonies. The indigenous peoples, according to our sources mostly peaceful Tain
Whereas of late, many negroes have been suffered to remain at the meetings of the Quakers, as hearers of their doctrine, and taught in their principles, whereby safety of the island may be much hazarded: be it enacted, that if at any time after publicatio
In Belize, slaves were used for logging. Therefore, slavery and Belizean society developed differently from other parts of the Caribbean where slaves and their families worked and lived in plantations. Slaves in Belize worked in scattered gangs in the for
