The Forgotten Freedom Fighters of Trinidad and Tobago! Merikin Maroons

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  • Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024

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  • @AFRICANTIGRESS
    @AFRICANTIGRESS  11 месяцев назад +13

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    • @risinup2778
      @risinup2778 11 месяцев назад +1

      Tigress , the drink will make you live long and keep you away for sickness .Thank you for the natural videos. I love the history 🇹🇹 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 🍁

    • @AFRICANTIGRESS
      @AFRICANTIGRESS  11 месяцев назад

      how often should one take it?
      @@risinup2778

    • @garfieldwhittaker944
      @garfieldwhittaker944 11 месяцев назад +1

      African Tigress while in Kingston which is on the Eastern side of Jamaica you should try to visit the Maroon settlement at Moore Town in the Blue Mountains of Portland parish. After that you should go rafting on the nearby Ro Grande before visiting the famous Blue Hole tourist attraction....
      There's also another Maroon settlement in the Western section of Jamaica at Accompong Town in St. Elizabeth parish and yet another in the hills South of Montego Bay named Maroon Town. Lots to see and do. While in Montego Bay be sure to visit the White Witch of Rose Hall Great House museum set on an old 18th century slave/sugar plantation....

  • @f6876
    @f6876 11 месяцев назад +25

    African/ black history is so RICH and fascinating! We really need to tell our own stories and make movies, dramas etc

  • @leonisroberts2442
    @leonisroberts2442 11 месяцев назад +38

    It was my Pleasure Having You At My Home
    Enjoy Trinidad and Tobago💜💜🌹🌹💯💯💯🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

    • @margaret6061
      @margaret6061 11 месяцев назад +6

      The US Embassy is offering a Grant for people involved in Cultural Preservation. Your group should apply and see if you qualify.

    • @AFRICANTIGRESS
      @AFRICANTIGRESS  11 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you for hosting me Aunt Leonis

    • @leonisroberts2442
      @leonisroberts2442 11 месяцев назад

      You are Always Welcome Hunni❤❤❤❤

    • @imhotepmk8090
      @imhotepmk8090 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@leonisroberts2442 Aunty Leonis , for most of us, this is the first time we hear about the Merikins. Thank you very much for sharing as it was very informative and educational. Gratitude and appreciation ❤❤❤

    • @leonisroberts2442
      @leonisroberts2442 11 месяцев назад +2

      You are most welcome
      Bless and Safe 2024
      To You

  • @leonaisaac1368
    @leonaisaac1368 11 месяцев назад +21

    Kudos to this lady for preserving her heritage.❤❤ I would love to visit for a tour some day.

  • @gideonwoods8834
    @gideonwoods8834 11 месяцев назад +23

    Man! The lady made it very easy to understand the merikin history and African tigress asked the right questions. I really enjoyed the this episode very much 📚✅💯

  • @cyelgreen4655
    @cyelgreen4655 11 месяцев назад +20

    This woman is a treasure.

  • @ksaljulimaiajuli5687
    @ksaljulimaiajuli5687 11 месяцев назад +36

    I've never heard of merikins in Trinidad. Thank you. The government or local businesses of Trinidad should provide this woman with funding .

    • @winsomeg1124
      @winsomeg1124 11 месяцев назад +1

      WOW! I didn't know the Merikins were in Trinidad too. I knew they went to Dominican Republic.....My Jamaican Grandma had those too. Washboard, Safe, Coal Pot, Iron, Grater. She also had the Medicine Bottle under her bed with Rum, Leaves, herbs & a Big Black dead Scorpion. YES anti Venom for Scorpion bites. No snakes in it bc Jamaica doesn't really have Snakes running around. ( RARE, I lived there for 18 yrs & never saw a snake.) I heard the Mongoose killed them. The Mongoose has a natural Snake anti Venom.😊 So beautiful that she preserved History & has a small museum in her house. Priceless info & Artifacts. 👍

    • @jabaltariq4606
      @jabaltariq4606 11 месяцев назад

      It may well be that (1) she never applied for funding or(2) there is no mechanism for her to apply for funding. If (2), then the first step should be for such a mechanism to be set up

    • @dasaniwilliams9463
      @dasaniwilliams9463 11 месяцев назад

      So u never did Social Studies

    • @etrivas1
      @etrivas1 9 месяцев назад +1

      Beautiful. Welcome to Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹. There is a wealth of history from the Merikins (free African slaves) to the world. They were give land in 6 (1st. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th) Companies in South Trinidad. Bush medicine is the best. Have an enjoyable one. Stay safe. Respect and blessings.

    • @jezeannwilliams1145
      @jezeannwilliams1145 4 месяца назад

      There is a huge celebration in August of every year in the Company villages

  • @kingslj
    @kingslj 11 месяцев назад +9

    She has kept great history, which need to be kept for many more years for the young people to appreciate where they have come from although some may not want to know their history. I remember using the pressing iron & also the grass cutting instrument in my country Zambia too. Thank you.

  • @annet1407
    @annet1407 11 месяцев назад +18

    I am a descendant of the Merikins. I am so proud of my history.

  • @lisaboyce9246
    @lisaboyce9246 11 месяцев назад +16

    In Barbados we called that “washing machine” a jukking board. I remember my Mom using one in the 80’s. It’s wonderful seeing the similarities between our islands. Our ancestors were ingenious

    • @ettaphil9586
      @ettaphil9586 11 месяцев назад +8

      Called so in Trinidad too.

    • @mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL
      @mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL 11 месяцев назад

      We still have them here in Gambia🇬🇲 western Africa we call it BANKU it can have other names in other languages too.. one people indeed 🙏💯

    • @tundebakare6887
      @tundebakare6887 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL😂😂 but Banku is typical swallow food in Ghana just like fufu

    • @mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL
      @mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL 11 месяцев назад

      @@tundebakare6887 yea u see the beauty of our languages lolz ..now when i go to the Ghanaian woman that sells Kenkeh will ask for the banku too🤣😂

    • @tundebakare6887
      @tundebakare6887 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL oh well. I'm a Nigerian by the way 😊

  • @abdulghafur-xz6ls
    @abdulghafur-xz6ls 11 месяцев назад +14

    I truly enjoyed this one. Don't be a stranger to bitterness,it allows for a balance with sweetness. "Who has not tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet". Great.

    • @AFRICANTIGRESS
      @AFRICANTIGRESS  11 месяцев назад +2

      HAHAHA this way not regular bitter

    • @ettaphil9586
      @ettaphil9586 11 месяцев назад +3

      Un​@@AFRICANTIGRESS Have you ever had bitter melon/ called carillie in Trinidad.

    • @AFRICANTIGRESS
      @AFRICANTIGRESS  11 месяцев назад +1

      @@ettaphil9586 nop

  • @amindedphone
    @amindedphone 11 месяцев назад +10

    This lady is speaking truth.I am bajan and ai can remember as young children my parents giving us bush medicines steeped in rum from various bottles ,the bottles were exact replica of hers.

  • @GloriaNoel-me9vp
    @GloriaNoel-me9vp 11 месяцев назад +10

    The story she told you is true some of the merikings are living in my neighbour hood they are very nice people and people still talk about her grand father pappa nesa that is real trinidad history🇹🇹

  • @mavisburke495
    @mavisburke495 11 месяцев назад +6

    Wow i just learned something new about those people of Trinidad.

  • @carlcadogan4510
    @carlcadogan4510 11 месяцев назад +5

    That is so awesome the museum.

  • @thelmaallard3035
    @thelmaallard3035 11 месяцев назад +5

    Very informative. Carried me back to my young days

  • @masalamouth
    @masalamouth 11 месяцев назад +7

    Hi Tigress, the drink Ms. Leonis gave you is called Zebapique (Neurolaena lobata): To treat fever, common cold and cough, the leaves are crushed and drunk in juice or soaked in alcohol and taken as a 1-ounce (30 mL) shot. Fever grass (Cymbopogon citratus): Also called lemongrass, it's used to treat fever and common colds or as a cooling.
    I'm enjoying your content in the land that I ♥️🇹🇹Enjoy the rest of your stay in T&T!

  • @daleeastmond4031
    @daleeastmond4031 11 месяцев назад +6

    I am bajan and I love the history that lady is giving

  • @Pinky.1991
    @Pinky.1991 11 месяцев назад +5

    I’m learning so much. Thank you 🙏🏾❤️

    • @tinatendi
      @tinatendi 11 месяцев назад

      This is my other channel and I’m enjoying Trinidad vlogs. Thanks dearest ❤️🙏🏾

  • @jacquelinemadoo2616
    @jacquelinemadoo2616 11 месяцев назад +5

    I remember those artifacts she showed you. We used these things spending time in Maracas by my grandparents. Continued to enjoy your visit and stay safe, Blessings 🎉❤

  • @B1970T
    @B1970T 11 месяцев назад +5

    An Amazing Lady, I learned a lot.

  • @vinnette4583
    @vinnette4583 11 месяцев назад +5

    this Trinidadian lady is a great historian we all should know about our slavery history in the Caribbean or west i des i am a lova of history but it the first of hearing aboutthe merican in my country putting scorpion in a bottle of white rum after soaking it good for everything viewers from Jamaica

    • @kerubel1436
      @kerubel1436 11 месяцев назад

      You should also know about your african history......your history did not start with slavery

  • @anthonytobi9773
    @anthonytobi9773 11 месяцев назад +15

    Most of the things our mama showed you particularly the pressing Iron, the herbal drink, the item for grating cassava I grew up seeing them with my grandparents. It is very much clear that most them were taken away from West Africa. I see much of Nigerian related activities in them. Thank.

    • @AFRICANTIGRESS
      @AFRICANTIGRESS  11 месяцев назад +2

      Yes most were taken from West Africa

    • @Lisa-kd1ul
      @Lisa-kd1ul 11 месяцев назад +1

      What’s in the herbal drink and what is it for?

    • @leonisroberts2442
      @leonisroberts2442 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@Lisa-kd1ulthe herbal Drink is mostly for Cough and Cold and Fever
      Ah Lil Boost for the Body

    • @tundebakare6887
      @tundebakare6887 11 месяцев назад

      Yeah there is a similarities with Nigerians and West Africans

    • @maureenfrancois7596
      @maureenfrancois7596 11 месяцев назад

      Great video. Very interesting. Kudos Leonis❤

  • @Lionspride426
    @Lionspride426 11 месяцев назад +2

    Thumbs up. That lady is amazing

  • @cynthiaedwards954
    @cynthiaedwards954 11 месяцев назад +4

    My grand parents in Tobago used to give this concoction to us when we were little.

  • @hyacinthrosamond
    @hyacinthrosamond 11 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for highlighting this part of our history...😊 very interesting!!!

  • @dolarie5285
    @dolarie5285 11 месяцев назад +3

    Wow that is very educational and very historical please preserve your memories and legacies.You are very inspiring.

  • @whz366
    @whz366 11 месяцев назад +3

    Antiques and artifacts. I know them all. I used the potty as a child myself. My grandmother had her mortar and pistle, and when we roasted corn it was done on the cold pot. We used the iron press as a door jam eventually and the sowing machine was mounted on a table. The third version of the sowing machine added the metal foot press. At home we did not have outhouses, but my mother's great aunts in the countryside did and I had friends with latrines. I have never heard of the Merikins, but one is never too old to learn history.

  • @oceejekwam6829
    @oceejekwam6829 11 месяцев назад +11

    Fantastic intro. - I laughed heartily.
    Caribbean people are very hospitable.
    This is educational for me as I had never head of the Merikin people before.

    • @oceejekwam6829
      @oceejekwam6829 11 месяцев назад

      I wonder if any of the Merikin people settled in Guyana 🇬🇾 or Suriname 🇸🇷?

    • @patricialazare5526
      @patricialazare5526 11 месяцев назад +2

      There are African ancestors who were free in the USA Trinidad need workers to plant rice Cocoa coffee the British took them from American to Trinidad to work cutting down the forest making roads that's why it name is called they were not born in Trinidad they born USA they made it them self Amerkin. USA,/ Trinidad Born lives USA 🙏💖🎉❤

    • @leonisroberts2442
      @leonisroberts2442 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@oceejekwam6829they are called Moorons

    • @tundebakare6887
      @tundebakare6887 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@patricialazare5526oh great I have learnt something from you ❤❤ 🇳🇬

  • @islandgirl3330
    @islandgirl3330 11 месяцев назад +5

    I remember my mother having scopions in a bottle. I wonder if her story about the Merkins is documented. We were never taught this in school in my day. This is new to me.

    • @BlackHeartMan_NoSoul
      @BlackHeartMan_NoSoul 11 месяцев назад +5

      This history is very well documented actually, It's documented on the Nalis website (national library), National archives tt (natt) has downloadable pdfs on this. There's a documentary that was aired on ttt, it's also on youtube called - T&T legacy stories, the merikins (feat. Hazel Manning) etc...

  • @michelleclarke1022
    @michelleclarke1022 11 месяцев назад +4

    Hi Trinidad 🇹🇹 in the house

  • @QueenofAfrica1217
    @QueenofAfrica1217 11 месяцев назад +2

    That's good stuff, African Tygress. Make your body strong.

  • @kaydenpat
    @kaydenpat 11 месяцев назад +2

    She’s a very lively woman with so much unique knowledge. First time I’m hearing of merikans.

  • @annmariecooper5606
    @annmariecooper5606 11 месяцев назад +2

    My school friend Octavia, hosting African Tigress.
    Princes Town my home town

  • @annmariemccoon
    @annmariemccoon 11 месяцев назад +2

    My beautiful country Trinidad 🇹🇹 enjoy my dear 🙏💕

  • @colindenoon9605
    @colindenoon9605 11 месяцев назад +4

    Great video. Merikin history isn't in the history books at all. I had to gather bits and pieces about them as an adult.

  • @tesfatsiondominik
    @tesfatsiondominik 11 месяцев назад +4

    Wow, you are so brave. I don’t think I could ever drink something like that.

  • @extremeensemble608
    @extremeensemble608 11 месяцев назад +6

    Lol you had me laughing so much after drinking the concoction...omg I dont have a stomach for that at all lol.

    • @rda-gama2567
      @rda-gama2567 11 месяцев назад +2

      No way I could have drinking that concoction!

  • @melissastraker1155
    @melissastraker1155 9 месяцев назад

    Get well soon Tigress. You are doing just what you need, rest and relaxation and you are in the right place for it.

  • @gloriaroffey6884
    @gloriaroffey6884 11 месяцев назад +4

    When I was growing up every one had one of those bottles. The drink was given for any ailment.

  • @lincolndipnarinesingh3035
    @lincolndipnarinesingh3035 11 месяцев назад +2

    I heard about the Merikins if I am not mistaken couple of them when to Belmont, watching from Bellrose NY

    • @lorenzoabbott1442
      @lorenzoabbott1442 9 месяцев назад +1

      No the slaves that went into the hills of Belmont were actually slaves in Trinidad, the Merikans are freed slaves from America that got placed in moruga south Trinidad by the British

  • @KT_the_1st
    @KT_the_1st 11 месяцев назад +5

    The granddaughter of one of the most famous Obeah Men in Trinidad... lots of history there..

    • @winsomeg1124
      @winsomeg1124 11 месяцев назад +1

      Interesting. They call it Obeah in Trinidad too?

    • @magicmike6129
      @magicmike6129 11 месяцев назад +2

      My mom's uncle was a known Obeah man too, he once turn a man into a goat 🐐

    • @catann9818
      @catann9818 11 месяцев назад

      😂😂😂😅😅😅😅❤​@@magicmike6129

    • @tundebakare6887
      @tundebakare6887 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@magicmike6129really 😅

    • @magicmike6129
      @magicmike6129 11 месяцев назад

      @@tundebakare6887 Real talk!

  • @donnacadogan5982
    @donnacadogan5982 11 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing!

  • @usertopista6633
    @usertopista6633 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great history and culture. AT wafaa kuonja shubiri ni bitter zaidi

  • @bernadinemaynard9327
    @bernadinemaynard9327 8 месяцев назад

    AT this episode is very informative ❤🇹🇹

  • @nicollawharton
    @nicollawharton 6 месяцев назад

    I'm a Merikin descendant...Blackwell blood line. Thanks for sharing.

  • @ginapersad7440
    @ginapersad7440 11 месяцев назад

    Beautiful and blessed treasures indeed 🙏❤️

  • @yuridickson5543
    @yuridickson5543 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you.

  • @lisalai8709
    @lisalai8709 11 месяцев назад

    AT thank you for sharing 🇹🇹❤️

  • @CliveAshley-d7g
    @CliveAshley-d7g 11 месяцев назад +1

    Like your screem😂😂 enjoying fr Jamaica 🏖️

  • @redfaman
    @redfaman 11 месяцев назад

    This is an amazing story. I never heard some of these things as my family was mixed with Spanish and Creole Chinese. But we had plenty adventures stories going up.

  • @tundebakare6887
    @tundebakare6887 11 месяцев назад +1

    As an African history is very important for the black race to know where they're from to know where they're going to.

  • @leonardorjioffor6683
    @leonardorjioffor6683 11 месяцев назад +1

    This same ways we used to drink these roots back I Nigeria when I was growing up

  • @nivaldopaiva4570
    @nivaldopaiva4570 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hello African Tigress! Here in Brazil there is also a very strong drink named "cachaça". When you come to Brazil, try it.

  • @ObiJMedia
    @ObiJMedia 11 месяцев назад

    Keep it on African Tigres

  • @michelleclarke1022
    @michelleclarke1022 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love it😊😊😊

  • @misstrinialicia643
    @misstrinialicia643 11 месяцев назад

    Really informative video ❤🇹🇹

  • @gloriaroffey6884
    @gloriaroffey6884 11 месяцев назад +4

    The company was their regiment

  • @auntie9077
    @auntie9077 11 месяцев назад

    Very nice share

  • @daleeastmond4031
    @daleeastmond4031 11 месяцев назад +1

    African tigress thank you for visiting Barbados and thank you for visiting my 2nd home

  • @kimberlygila
    @kimberlygila 11 месяцев назад +2

    Nice video of history from the lady and that alcohol must have been too bitter.

  • @user-qq6rr2je4q
    @user-qq6rr2je4q 11 месяцев назад +4

    Africans in Africa domesticated and grew a separate indigenous species of rice from Asian rice. Several varieties were able to be grown on dry land and on sloping hillsides. Europeans found vast rice fields in parts of Africa. Many skilled rice plantwrs were taken to the Americas to plant rice and established various African steains of rice as major crops. One variety Carolina Gold 2as a major source of food and a major agricultural product until it and the other African steains were replaced by the more common Asian rice.
    Morufa Hill rice was brought by the Merikins to Trinidad and served as a major food source until it too was mostly replaced by Asian rice except for a few niche and traditional growers. It was thought by American agriculturalists to have been extinct until it was "rediscovered" growing in large fields in Trinidad, whete it was making a comeback as a healthier alternative to commercial Asian white rice

  • @ar123..._
    @ar123..._ 11 месяцев назад +4

    Wow, I was talking with my son just Monday night about this very same thing The only thing is I was talking of the people I know went to The Bahamas and Bermuda but I did not know of one going to Trinidad and other Islands but I'm sure they did. We were talking about the national anthem of America and there was a section that they took out of the song which was very graphic revenge that they were going to take on the black people who fought with the British.

  • @mudlanetv4766
    @mudlanetv4766 11 месяцев назад +1

    My grandfather have a bottle like this at home with the same insects in it...🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

    • @stillirise7813
      @stillirise7813 11 месяцев назад

      Real talk 👍🏾🇹🇹🇯🇲 💯

  • @makedahutton1267
    @makedahutton1267 11 месяцев назад +2

    Merikin, my people from the companies in Moruga.

  • @gloriaroffey6884
    @gloriaroffey6884 11 месяцев назад +1

    My grandmother’s family was Merikins

  • @lincolnclay7925
    @lincolnclay7925 11 месяцев назад +3

    I remember growing up in the 70s and 80s when I would act up, my grandmother would belt me then say I have it good with her because her mother would of made me kneel on a greater for hours, I didn't believe that happened until this video. 😅😅

  • @InstaF.A.M
    @InstaF.A.M 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wow! The house has narrow hallways .you are courageous to drink the drink. Atleast it’s all plants and not the snakes one

  • @rosemariegray-olabiran7991
    @rosemariegray-olabiran7991 11 месяцев назад +5

    The companies were their military units they belong in. The meriken were runaway black American slaves l who fought on the side of the British in exchange for their freedom . They were given land and freedom by the British in moruga Trinidad

    • @kaydenpat
      @kaydenpat 11 месяцев назад +2

      Wow. I had no idea that happened in Trinidad. I’m aware of those Black Canadians who live in Nova Scotia and are descendants of African American enslaved people. Learned something new today.

    • @kerubel1436
      @kerubel1436 11 месяцев назад

      They were runaway africans that were made into slaves in America

  • @stedwatts2486
    @stedwatts2486 11 месяцев назад +4

    TIGRESS, SOME PEOPLE FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, LIVING IN AMERICA, DRINK THE SAME HERBAL MEDICINE LIVING NEXT TO ME! I DRINK IT BEFORE A FEW YEARS AGO! IT'S VERY GOOD! PLEASE TAKE A SIP OF ME 😂😂😂🇺🇸

  • @mikejospha254
    @mikejospha254 11 месяцев назад +4

    Wawawah 😂. Kenyan bwoy watching

    • @ettaphil9586
      @ettaphil9586 11 месяцев назад

      Hello from Trinidad and Tobago ❤

  • @africanrumpunch7742
    @africanrumpunch7742 11 месяцев назад +2

    That posey took me back boi! 😅😅😅 Is that Zebapeak?

  • @tundebakare6887
    @tundebakare6887 11 месяцев назад +1

    The former Liberian president Charles Taylor's father is from the Trinidad he was amongst the mericans Who came to Trinidad

  • @jedwards1874
    @jedwards1874 11 месяцев назад +3

    In Barbados we call it the jooking board

  • @shellyh.2033
    @shellyh.2033 10 месяцев назад

    When I go home I will visit her in Princes Town. The ANCESTORS Time has COME. We will tell OUR OWN STORIES🔥🔥🔥👊🏿

  • @ianbolah5873
    @ianbolah5873 10 месяцев назад

    African Tigress will never get sick again drinking that natural herbs medicine 😊

  • @cyrillaanselm5336
    @cyrillaanselm5336 11 месяцев назад +2

    It's funny that the two women came from the same source but did not acknowledge their oneness.Africans need to acknowledge that Black people in the Caribbean are there brothers and sisters.Then we would have come full circle.

  • @mh4335
    @mh4335 11 месяцев назад +14

    It's amazing how this Trini women is showing us what we used to use long ago throughout the Caribbean with the outhouse, basin to bath, and wash boards for doing laundry. I remember meeting some Trinidadians in the US who claimed they never had to use them Things back in the days because their country was the wealthiest in the Caribbean. 😅😮 So why is this Trini lady here today telling and showing us the truth? 😂

    • @kerryleeboucaud5171
      @kerryleeboucaud5171 11 месяцев назад +4

      This woman has made it her mission to upkeep && inherent her ancestoral items.
      But I can assure you most Trinidadians do not have all these items.
      She literally said MUSEUM

    • @candid0111
      @candid0111 11 месяцев назад +10

      Well the older ones might have had to use them and remember this lady said they are based in south which is more to the countryside. I'm a trini woman in my thirties and never had to use these things or even saw most of them until I visited the local museum. Didn't even know about the merikins and that they got land and stuff like that. U learn new things every day.

    • @mh4335
      @mh4335 11 месяцев назад +6

      The Trinidadians who were making that claim were up there in age. Old enough to know.Even though it was how they lived in the countryside or not , those days were primitive years. I find it odd that Trinidadians wouldn't know about these things. Even in some parts of the United state , mostly in the southern parts , they used out houses and some on these items she discussed back in the days.There's no need to be prideful or shameful about any of thi. I embrace that part of our culture and history . History simply teaches us our story.

    • @rosemariegray-olabiran7991
      @rosemariegray-olabiran7991 11 месяцев назад +6

      The older generation used the outhouse known as the latrine. Most young Trinidad have never used an outhouse. However poor people still used them. The Trinidad lady was right when she said she never used the outhouse

    • @prosperousnatasha8153
      @prosperousnatasha8153 11 месяцев назад +2

      Everyone grew up like that because those were the times before Washer and dryer were invented unless they were born after that time. The museum look like the home I grew up in my parents were born in the early 30’s

  • @IngridLewis-Fleming
    @IngridLewis-Fleming 9 месяцев назад

    My grandfather was an merikin, his name was MacKenzie francis,my grandmother was Wilemina Olga francis

  • @mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL
    @mohammedS47FOREVERGRATEFUL 11 месяцев назад

    We still have them wooden washing machine here in Gambia western Africa we call it Banku it can have other names in other languages too..

  • @aldeelollah5732
    @aldeelollah5732 11 месяцев назад +1

    The bush medicine drink is currently being produced in Africa same way.

  • @patriciamatthews9390
    @patriciamatthews9390 11 месяцев назад +2

    I don't know if I could drink snake drink I will throw up but enjoy Trinidad ❤️

    • @AFRICANTIGRESS
      @AFRICANTIGRESS  11 месяцев назад +2

      The one i drank has no snake in it

  • @isiomaamma9869
    @isiomaamma9869 11 месяцев назад +4

    Lots of Yoruba people were brought to Trinidad as slaves any one can look it up on the transatlantic routes

  • @rosemariegray-olabiran7991
    @rosemariegray-olabiran7991 11 месяцев назад +3

    Mrs. Hazel manning is a descendant of merikens the wife of our deceased Prime minister Patrick Manning may he rip.

  • @anthonytobi9773
    @anthonytobi9773 11 месяцев назад

    That pressing we do have in Nigeria.

  • @thedoveflykm5679
    @thedoveflykm5679 11 месяцев назад

    Yes

  • @redfaman
    @redfaman 11 месяцев назад

    My family in Santa Cruz Trinidad called it the Jucking Board.

  • @magicmike6129
    @magicmike6129 11 месяцев назад +7

    For a historian she is not giving accurate information, A company was a military unit with up to 100 to 250 soldiers. If you watch old westerns, you will hear that term a lot.
    The streets in the Southern part of Trinidad still bear the names of the units that came here.

    • @WilmaNelson-uy8ev
      @WilmaNelson-uy8ev 11 месяцев назад +5

      Omg let her introduce little history nah

    • @leonisroberts2442
      @leonisroberts2442 11 месяцев назад +6

      Thanks for the Correction
      Otherwise hope you learned some History off Trinidad

    • @peggygreen5921
      @peggygreen5921 11 месяцев назад +1

      @leonisroberts2442
      Thank you so much for sharing your history, antiques/treasures with the world.
      Appreciate your gracious comment.

    • @user-qq6rr2je4q
      @user-qq6rr2je4q 11 месяцев назад +3

      The Companies were settled in villages that were named after the Company number eg Fifth Company

    • @WilmaNelson-uy8ev
      @WilmaNelson-uy8ev 11 месяцев назад +2

      I learned something's from this lady appreciate she took time to share this information

  • @shellyh.2033
    @shellyh.2033 10 месяцев назад

    The posey, memories🤗

  • @margaret6061
    @margaret6061 11 месяцев назад +6

    The US Embassy has a grant for cultural preservation, they should apply.

    • @KT_the_1st
      @KT_the_1st 11 месяцев назад +2

      Negative to that.. Trinidad must take center stage in its own cultural heritage..

  • @estherrajballi247
    @estherrajballi247 10 месяцев назад

    “Lopinot” ,Toussaint brought them there ,they were also receive education,unknown.later on it was known to everyone. That was good news.

  • @livingwitharleneandjudah
    @livingwitharleneandjudah 11 месяцев назад

    You will be fine tigress 🇹🇹🇺🇸

  • @miakmo59
    @miakmo59 11 месяцев назад +2

    👏👏👏❤❤

  • @shellyh.2033
    @shellyh.2033 10 месяцев назад

    The road to death is sweet😊. Embrace the bitter which is Life in the herbs

  • @rosemariegray-olabiran7991
    @rosemariegray-olabiran7991 11 месяцев назад +1

    Loverly museum

  • @GoSeeAfrica
    @GoSeeAfrica 11 месяцев назад

    Guys let us subscribe and share her channel

  • @rosemariegray-olabiran7991
    @rosemariegray-olabiran7991 11 месяцев назад +2

    Hill rice was brought to Trinidad by the Africans

  • @MrLionLC
    @MrLionLC 11 месяцев назад +1

    Original Spice Rum!!

  • @tishagabriel3146
    @tishagabriel3146 11 месяцев назад +1

    ❤❤

    • @tishagabriel3146
      @tishagabriel3146 11 месяцев назад +1

      Tnk u for your love !!! I am one of your followers ,I love watching u am from moruga but lives in the USA...ask your host to take u moruga there is a museum there to ...have fun

  • @africarain8294
    @africarain8294 11 месяцев назад +1

    They call it grip also over their in jamaica