Mike ....
its impossible to help AFRO , his head to hard and he to chupid ...to start with .
mikesiva wrote:
I'm stunned at your lack of knowledge about Caribbean history, even though you CLAIM to be West Indian....
Let me give you a synopsis of West Indian history with relation to slave labour....
When the British colonised the islands of Barbados, Antigua and St Kitts in the 1600s, they tried indigo, but that failed. By the mid-1650s, they were growing sugar, and little else, aside from a little coffee in Jamaica, cocoa in Trinidad, etc. Slaves in the Caribbean were mainly involved in reaping sugar.
Cotton was grown in the southern United States....
I suggest you read 'A History of the West Indies' by Augier. That was required reading for those of us who went to school in the Caribbean. I recommend that Brazilians who want to pretend to be West Indian read that book too....
Cotton was never grown in Trinidad. Up until the Napoleonic War, Trinidad was a Spanish colony, and hardly used. When the British conquered it at the start of the 19th century, they introduced sugar, but had a labour shortage, because the slave trade had been abolished. That's why, when slavery was finally abolished in 1833, they had to import large numbers of Indian indentured servants. It's a similar story for Guyana....
I tried to explain what you posted see below but he accused my family of having benefited of slaves . My family moved from Scotland after emancipation , so how could that occur .If he
had any inkling of the history he would see Slavery was started by the Arabs , then the Portuguese and the Dutch .
Little does he understand that the Chiefs of these
African Tribes were the sellers of their own people to the Portuguese and the Dutch .
Cotton was never grown in Trinidad. Up until the Napoleonic War, Trinidad was a Spanish colony, and hardly used. When the British conquered it at the start of the 19th century, they introduced sugar, but had a labour shortage, because the slave trade had been abolished. That's why, when slavery was finally abolished in 1833, they had to import large numbers of Indian indentured servants. It's a similar story for Guyana..
My family used Spanish workers to clear the land ( I have the ledgers) and indentured workers
from India to plant crops and they were provided with Barracks and paid a daily wage . What
salve labor did we use
NONE .
I had a relative who married a Frenchman who had a son this is what history said about him ..
Bicaise came to Trinidad from Martinique and while here, married Marie Rose Rambert from Scotland.
They had purchased 250 acres of land known as La Ressource Estate.
The couple had six daughters and four sons, the historians have recorded.
John Nelson, though not the eldest, was the most popular son.
He was sent to England to further his studies, but abandoned his studies and opted for employment as a slave trader.
Prof Chris de Wilde, of the University of Belgium, in the course of his research on the Bicaise family, stated, "John Nelson failed to qualify as a professional because of his inability to pursue academic studies, so he accepted employment with a slave trader in West Africa."
De Wilde, who visited Trinidad in 2005, said, "John Nelson operated his trade in the Rio Pongo, off the coast of Guinea. From this trade he made millions, but due to mismanagement of the business and an attack by the French security forces, he was forced to close the trading station. He died penniless on the banks of the Rio Pongo River."
The son dies broke , his family didn't gain any wealth from what he did . My family didn't
inherit any thing from this Frenchman , we had our own Estates , sugar Mills and
Manufacturing operation in Scotland .
So AFRO as usual is clueless as the extinct do do bird.
As Dr Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad, noted, Trinidad in 1833, was not a plantation society; it was a society of small estates operated by a few slaves. The average slave owner had seven slaves in Trinidad, as compared to 24 in Tobago. According to Dr Williams, Trinidad had a mere 17,439 slaves at Emancipation, as opposed to Jamaica, which had 254,310, slaves, or British Guiana, which had 69,579. In addition, in Trinidad there were three domestic slaves for every 10 field slaves, as compared with a ratio of under two to 10 in Jamaica and one to 10 in British Guiana. Moreover, the British annexation of Trinidad came at a time when English opposition to slavery was winning popular approval. As a result, Trinidad was administered as a Model Colony, in respect of legislation governing the treatment of slaves.
The largest immigration, however, came from the importation of 143,949 Indian indentured labourers between 1845 and 1917.
Hopefully one of these days AFRO will graduate from High school .
, you're BORN IN ENGLAND you're Indian and WHITE, so i guess i shouldn't be surprised that you're trying to come to Liz Cheney's rescue!! 
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