Download or read book The Shillingfords of Dominica and Their Family Tree written by Davison Shillingford and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About this BookSomewhere in the 1780s, three Shillingfords landed in Dominica. They were Thomas, William, and their nephew Charles, blacksmiths out of England in search of their fortune. Imbued with the Protestant Ethic, these Shillingfords were variously blacksmiths, government employees, overseers for absentee estate owners, and later, estate owners in their own right. And one hundred and fifty years after their arrival, the Shillingfords were among the most successful and prominent families on the island. This is their Narrative and Family Tree. The Tree contains more than 2,000 entries, collected over several years, and sets out detailed family connections. The Narrative, on the other hand, gives us an overview of the Shillingfords of Dominica, where they came from and their impact on the island. It introduces us to many noteworthy Dominica Shillingfords, like Thomas, the son of Charles who first came to Dominica. It was Thomas who broke the island's white color-bar to marry a woman of color; and there is his son Thomas Howard (THS), the patriarch of west coast Shillingfords, who brought shops and sea communication to the isolated west coast; his son Howell Donald (HDS) became one of Dominica's leading politicians and a Commander of the British Empire. We also meet the visionary Albert Cavendish (ACS), principal developer of Dominica's early commercial and manufacturing enterprise. More recently we meet Sir Brian Alleyne, son of Hermia Shillingford Alleyne, knighted for his outstanding jurisprudence; then there is Shane Shillingford, one of the most successful bowlers in West Indies cricket. But many Dominica Shillingfords have moved on to other countries. In the Family Tree we see several of these. They have migrated to Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, Jamaica, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. They are making their own contributions to their adopted communities, as did THS, HDS and ACS before them. Today, out of that ancient Blacksmith's anvil now flows Macoucherie rum leavened with community service. I hope this Shillingford Narrative and Family Tree is informative and engaging, and an inspiring tribute to those ancient Blacksmiths. - Davison Shillingford
Download or read book The Dominica Story written by Lennox Honychurch and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Speak for the People written by Wynter Crawford and published by Andersen Press (UK). This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of papers, Verene Shepherd shuns the usual role of the cloistered academic to engage readers on a range of issues relevant to Jamaica's historical past. Coverage includes conquest and colonization, slavery, post-slavery society, and decolonization. Added to these are contemporary issues such as migration, activism in an age of individualism and the continuing struggle for true mental liberation.
Download or read book West Indian Societies written by David Lowenthal and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also data concerning the Dutch Caribbean.
Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of Eden written by Irving W. Andre and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Forests of Freedom written by Lennox Honychurch and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society. The Maroons, runaways who escaped slavery, formed their own community on the Caribbean island. Much has been written about the Maroons of Jamaica, little about the Maroons of Dominica. This book redresses this gap. Honychurch takes the reader deep into the forested hinterland of Dominica to explore the political, social, and economic impact of the Maroons and details their struggles and victories.
Download or read book Montage Domnik written by Waitukubuli Writers and published by River Ridge Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montage Domnik is a collection of new stories and poem by published and unpublished Dominican authors.
Download or read book Rain on a Tin Roof written by Gabriel J. Christian and published by Ingram. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unburnable written by Marie-Elena John and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy woman whose life was told of in chanté mas songs sung during Carnival—songs about a village on a mountaintop littered with secrets, masquerades that supposedly fly and wreak havoc, and a man who suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead. After twenty years away, Lillian returns to her native island to face the demons of her past—and with the help of Teddy, a man who has loved her for many years, she may yet find a way to heal. Set in both contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica, Unburnable weaves together West Indian history, African culture, and American sensibilities. Richly textured and lushly rendered, Unburnable showcases a welcome and assured new voice.
Download or read book Black Names written by Joey Lee Dillard and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1976 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Download or read book Rastafari and Other African Caribbean Worldviews written by Barry Chevannes and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rastafari has been seen as a political organization, a youth movement, and a millenarian cult. This lively collection of papers challenges these categories and offers a "new approach" to the study of Rastafari. Chevannes and his contributors suggest that we can better understand Rastafari-and Caribbean culture, for that matter-by seeing the movement as both a departure from and a continuance of Revivalism, an African-Caribbean folk religion. By linking Rastafari to Revival, we can enrich our understanding of an African-Caribbean worldview, and we can appreciate Rastafari not only as a political force but as a powerful expression of African-Caribbean culture and tradition. Barry Chevannes provides a concise overview of Rastafari and Revivalism and clearly lays out the volume's "new approach." Leading scholars of Rastafari illustrate and develop the theme with chapters on Rastafari as resistance, the origin of the dreadlocks, Rastafari and language, women in African-Caribbean religions and more. With chapters that range from the specific to the general, this volume will be important to specialists of Caribbean religion and the African diaspora and to those with a burgeoning interest in Rastafari. The contributors include Jean Besson, Ellis Cashmore, Barry Chevannes, John P. Homiak, Roland Littlewood, H.U.E Thoden van Velzen, and Wilhelmina van Wetering.
Download or read book Afro Creole written by Richard D. E. Burton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions—including those in religion, music, food, dress, and family structure—were transformed by interaction with European and indigenous forces to create the particular cultures of Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti. He demonstrates how the resulting Afro-Creole cultures have both challenged and reinforced the social, political, and economic status quo in these countries.Jamaican slaves opposed slavery in many ways and one of the most important, Burton suggests, was the development of Afro-Christianity. He pays particular attention to the African-derived Christmas celebration of Jonkonnu as an expression of opposition and then documents religion in the post-slavery period, with an emphasis on Rastafarianism in Jamaica and Vodou in Haiti. The element of play has always figured importantly in Afro-Caribbean life. Burton examines the evolution of carnival and calypso in Trinidad and describes the significance of cricket in defining Caribbean national identity. Based on ten years of research, Afro-Creole draws on historical, anthropological, sociological, and literary sources. Burton characterizes the emergence of Caribbean identity with three different national flavors and demonstrates how culture both reflects and impacts people's changing sense of their own political power.
Download or read book Searching for the Invisible Man written by Michael Craton and published by Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, Worthy Park, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system. Michael Craton uses computer techniques in the first of three main parts of his study to provide a dynamic analysis of the demographic, health, and socioeconomic characteristics of the Worthy Park slaves as a whole. The surprising diversity and complex interrelation of the population are underlined in Part Two, consisting of detailed biographies of more than 40 individual members of the plantation's society, including whites and mulattoes as well as black slaves. This is the most ambitious attempt yet made to overcome the stereotyping ignorance of contemporary white writers and the muteness of the slaves themselves. Part Three is perhaps the most original section of the book. After tracing the fate of the population between the emancipation of 1838 and the present day through genealogies and oral interviews, Craton concludes that the predominant feature of plantation life has not been change but continuity, and that the accepted definitions of slavery need considerable modification.
Download or read book The Pleasures of Exile written by George Lamming and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check
Download or read book Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage written by Richard Allsopp and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
Download or read book Jamaica Its Past and Present State written by James Mursell Phillippo and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
