I have discovered through the course of my painstaking research for my upcoming historical fiction novel, Children of the Ocean God, that Caribbean history is littered with countless tragic stories of injustice, suffering and genocide. None moreso than the fascinating...
In today’s blogpost I want to talk about the voice of indigenous peoples in the historical record. As you can imagine, history books are by and large witten from the perspective of the dominant social group or power. In the case of the Americas, and specfically...
I found Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna to be a comprehensive and thoughtful account of the Black Carib Wars in St. Vincent. It is well researched, drawing extensively on historical records in French and English; as well as...
