🇹🇹 THE BLACK AMERICAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: The Merikins (American Couple Reacts)
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- 🇹🇹 THE BLACK AMERICAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: The Merikins (American Couple Reacts) | The Demouchets REACT Trinidad & Tobago
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Hazel Manning, who read from the book, was once the Minister of Education; her husband, Mr Patrick Manning, was the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Wikipedia has info about him.
Many male police officers from Barbados were sent to Trinidad by the British to keep law and order. Those police officers never went back to Barbados.
This is true! They never went back to Barbados! I wonder if Brian Manning has seen this! I'll send it to him.
Glad to know you have enjoyed learning about our history. I'm a Merikin descendant also. I have a list of names of all the Merikin slave names.
Can you share please?
I only recently learned about Merikins, it wasn't , taught in schools. I read about it a few years ago. So proud to learn of this part of Trini culture.
Thanks for highlighting a part of our history which is.often overlooked.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Our pleasure!
Great video. My father was from one of the companies called Hard Bargin in Williams Ville South Trinidad.
Oh wow! We love hearing this.
"If you know your history, then you would know where you are coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am..." - Bob Marley.
Back in Nigeria in the secondary school history class in the mid 1980s we had opportunity to learn not only West African history but also the Black and the Negro world, Pan Africanism, Decolonisation etc. We came across names such as Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Edward Blyden, etc and their contributions to the fight against slavery, colonialism, imperialism and restoring the dignity of the black race. I don't know why government and half-baked politicians removed history from the curriculum.
Several Pan African figures were from Trinidad and Tobago: Hendry Sylvester Williams who organized the FIRST Pan African Congress, George Padmore, Claudia Jones, Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture who was also heavily involved in the US Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the Black Panthers (he changed his name to honor Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Ture). We also had Ulric Cross, a decorated RAF pilot during WWl who became a judge and AG in several African countries during the independence era in Africa.
Moruga Hill Rice is an African indigenous rice variety also known as Red Bearded Upland Rice that grows on dry land and hillsides.
Future US president
Thomas Jefferson imported a cask of upland rice from Africa and distributed it to various farmers in different rice growing parts of the US in the hope that it could replace the paddy or wetland rice being grown at the time (Carolina Gold - also from Africa), as rice paddies in many areas resulted in heavy mosquito infestation and malaria. But the upland rice required more labour especially in threshing so it never caught on as a large commercial crop, but was grown as a subsistence and small garden crop by slaves and free blacks.
During the Civil War upland rice was lost as a crop and American agriculturalists had long believed it had become extinct in the Americas until it was discovered being grown in Trinidad.
Try national archives of Trinidad and Tobago for more information, in addition Trinidad and Tobago have a complete list and census of the enslaved Africans and what tribes they came from. In Trinidad and Tobago we had enslaved Africans from Nigeria, Mali, Sierra Leone , Morocco, Mozambique etc. Check national archives of Trinidad and Tobago. Also Trinidad merikens posted many videos on RUclips and yes they have connected to some of their American cousins. Hazel Manning our former minister of education is a descendant of merikens, her husband Patrick Manning was the former prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago rip to Patrick Manning he was a great Prime Minister
Merikens are still in Trinidad in the village of Moruga. If you ever visit Trinidad, please visit them.
We’d love to.
Just for the record, The Merikins were initially to be settled in Canada or Australia, Both territories refused hence they sent to Trinidad. Today in all there are seven Merikin Communities.. The original six Companies, One no longer exist as I understand two of these merged over time. There were also two additional communities. HardBargin and New Grant.
I think a lot of the family history is stored within church records in the Caribbean although we are bad at keep records. Jamaica has the Registrar Department that has records of birth, death, marriages, etc going back centuries
Have you been able to use it?
@@TheDemouchetsREACT A few years ago I wanted to do their genealogy process but the information they asked for to start related to great great grandparents, and my people's recollection wasn't too accurate. Jamaicans use nicknames as though they are the real names, we didnt know my Grandma's first name until high school when we did her passport - she was always called Rose but her name was Thelma. lol
And there was price to it.
We see a lot of nicknames on our tree as well. Some don’t even sound similar to their actual name lol.
😂 Exactly... But will definitely try to look into again.. I know I have great great grandparents from Ireland and China
This y trinidadains are the way they are
Well barbados was the birth places of the British first slaves society. The BMHS as some of the oldest british slave records of the trans Atlantic slave trade in the whole region .
Barbados in the building 🇧🇧
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