At the time that this picture was taken, Antigua was under British Colonial rule. Its very existence proves that the British were content to let their subjects live in abject squalor, document it and send it back for filing.
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June 29, 2021
CARIBBEAN HISTORIES – THE CARIBBEAN & THE WIDER WORLD (NATIONAL ARCHIVES, UK)
One of the main projects that attracted such workers was the building of the Panama Canal. Additionally, about 40,000 Jamaicans and Barbadians settled in Cuba in the early 20th century after migrating there to work in the sugar industry.
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June 26, 2021
CARIBBEAN HISTORIES – SOCIETY & WELFARE POST-TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE (NATIONAL ARCHIVES, UK)
The schooling system established during slavery was expanded to teach Christian morals to the recently freed slaves.
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June 26, 2021
CARIBBEAN HISTORIES – SLAVERY & NEGOTIATING FREEDOM (NATIONAL ARCHIVES)
The official revisionist historical narrative of the British after the Transatlantic Slave Trade is that there were only 3.1million African people captured, enslaved and worked to death by the British. SWR does not believe that this narrative is historically correct.
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June 26, 2021
CARIBBEAN HISTORIES – IDENTITY (NATIONAL ARCHIVES)
Enslaved Africans constantly fought to keep their identity and heritage alive.
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June 25, 2021
CARIBBEAN HISTORIES – MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE (NATIONAL ARCHIVES)
The Caribbean is composed of people from all over the world including those taken there by force and those who migrated freely.
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June 25, 2021
CARIBBEAN HISTORIES – INTRODUCTION (NATIONAL ARCHIVES)
All documents in the Caribbean histories series on this website are from the National Archives. They offer a no doubt sanitised and historically revised version of events that those of us not yet born at that time can use to get a glimpse of what our foremothers/forefathers lived through.
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May 21, 2021
COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS ACT, 1962
An Act to make temporary provision for controlling the immigration into the United Kingdom of Commonwealth citizens; to authorise the deportation from the United Kingdom of certain Commonwealth citizens convicted of offences and recommended by the court for deportation…
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April 21, 2021
UNITED NATIONS CALLS FOR COMMISSION ON RACE & ETHNIC DISPARITIES TO BE DISBANDED
institutional racism, structural invisibility, and longstanding inequalities have disproportionately impacted people of African descent living in the UK. Therefore, the suggestion that family structure, rather than institutionalized and structural discriminatory practices are the central features of the Black experience is a tone-deaf attempt at rejecting the lived realities of people of African descent and other ethnic minorities in the UK.
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March 18, 2021
CHEDDAR MAN
He is just one person, but also indicative of the population of Europe at the time,’ says Tom. ‘They had dark skin and most of them had pale colored eyes, either blue or green, and dark brown hair. Cheddar Man subverts people’s expectations of what kinds of genetic traits go together’.