There is no such thing you are what your father is. Portuguese is not a people is an identification of a country. Please know its not an indication of race or nationality.
It was the Chinese who were sent to work in the sugar cane fields by the British. Cutting cane was hard work and many ran away and did washing and cooking for the British soldiers. It was then the British brought the Indians to work the cane fields. The Portuguese were also brought from the Azors in Portugal to work the field in Guiana and Trinidad. When I visited the Azors our tour guide told us about their people were sent to work the fields because of the poverty in the Azors at that time.
I love the presentation..but really dislike references to "Caribs" and "Arawaks". It is so basic and a tad unenlightened. These first peoples were actually the Ciboneys, the Kalinagos ,the Cairi, the Igneri the Taino, and so on. Many dislike the UK approved version of history which re-names lesser-friendly-to-them tribes effectively robbing them of their individual identities. Most would appreciate a more accurate account than what we were taught in our West Indian Readers. Our History is so rich and I would really like to see someone capture its more defining moments and stories in a way that we can all respect and view with a sense of pride.
People don't seem realize that these natives are NOT Indians. This mistake was originally made by Columbus himself. They are actually a branch of the Inuit people living in modern-day Alaska & northern Canada. They are originally from Siberia & Mongolia.
As a researcher I’m very passionate about history and very concerned about its accuracy. I commend the effort made by these students in mapping the historical timeline of Trinidad and Tobago. However please permit to make one slight correction. Although it is mentioned the Cedula of Population was initiated by French Planter ‘Philip Rose Roume de St. Laurent’, your explanation is not clear if this took place while ‘Don José Maria Chacón’ was still the Spanish governor at the time. In fact the Cedula of Population came into effect 1783, around the same time ‘Don José Maria Chacón’ was appointed Governor in 1783/4. In short, the Cedula of Population encouraged French Immigrants and their slaves to settle here while we were under Spanish rule. Trinidad became a British Colony when Don Chacón surrendered his Governorship to the British1797.
Agree.. we are screwed up in Trinidad ..All english street names such as Picton. st..and others should be renamed with slaves names .The English were cruel we should be reminded about that... Slaves such as Dagga whom rebelled in st joseph together with three others against the British battalion and were put up against a firing squad and killed they showed no fear and turned their back against the guns..George earl park was the Venue..Trins have lost all sense of where they originated the Indians held on to their culture,,
Another part interesting part missing: you can add Latvia (in Northern Europe)as one of the colonizers.In 1640 Trinidad and Tobago was bought by Duke of Courland Jacob who sent Curonian(Latvian) settlers(80 families) to T&T in 1654.They were not slaughtering people, mainly exporting goods and doing agriculture. In 1664 T&T was taken over by British Empire (some sources mention Dutch) and Duke Jacob's ownership ended. Proof can be still found today:Fort Jacob (now James), Great Courland Bay.
the world ends when God has to go to sleep -- when God awakens, all this beautiful sweet lifestyle you lose, will be reborn again, on God's next day, when He awakens. And God lives for 100 yrs -- then dies = goes back to God's true form where God is not male or female or is of any religion --- as God says = l go back to My Beyond-Beyond-Original-Original Divine Self = this game ends (perhaps for a short while, then begins again, hopefully).
we still call the indigenous people Caribs and Arawaks??? I mean when you want to educate people , please be more explanatory and call the native people by their proper names, Tainos and Kalinagos.
From what I gather Amerindians were the original slave source but many died of diseases in large numbers and also had home field advantage to easily escape so they replaced them with Sub Saharan Africans but then Sub Saharan Africans started to resist more so they freed them and brought over new slaves from South Asia and then much later East Asia.
The good.....using photos; paintings and so forth. The Not-so-good....many points in the recount of the history contains errors. 1. Trinidad became a British colony, not a monarchy, at some point. 2. Carnival didn't evolve in Trinidad the way you recounted....there is so much literature to explain that the carnival has European origin and came to T&T through already existing practices. It exists ALL over the world, including all countries of latin America. My aim was just to help you see some of your flaws, although I just gave two. Nevertheless, this was good work.
amerindian is no longer an excepted term for first nation people. they were never Indians. that a mistake Columbus made when arriving in the new world.
@@mikemckelvey7144 The preferred term is "First Peoples". Their descendants appreciate being referenced by their actual tribal names... In the US you won't want to call a Cherokee a Cree? Would you? You wouldn't mis-reference a chinese person as Japanese.
+MrWebster773 No, not given land. All kinds of rules and regs were tried to prevent people being independent of the plantation system. Contrast with Barbados, where all the land was already taken up, Trinidad had lots of uncultivated land - thus quite draconian treatment of 'squatters' and bringing in thousands of indentured workers from India. Divide and rule.
I agree that no one should ever praise columbus for what he did. But he is not to blame for the state the country is in now...Yes the Europeans started it but who's carrying it out now? It sad to hear about the corruption, racial division and hatred and greed... With all due respect I think blaming dead people for why Trinidad is messed up is why no one sees it necessary to take up their own responsibility to raise up and be a better people. (I not judging nobody but we all have to check ourselves that's all myself included)
heaty007 I was thinking the exact same thing that after emancipation of the slaves in Trinidad they sought out Indian workers and then the Indian workers were given land for their efforts but the Africans were not given anything you're absolutely right the past affects the future but we need to work on building educating ownership worldwide
UMM.......you can't check yourself if you have generations of 100's of years of other people "checking" you. It's their fault we're not as educated as we need to be to better the country.. soo
I made this comment over a year ago. that las t response is shocking and very judgemental especially as you definitely don't know why I said that. I have and continue to experience negativity from others because I am black. today even I heard a racist comment referring to dark skin. I told her all colonized places have a false ideology because of our past. I never said that Columbus had no part to play. His part is significant! So I have made an extra effort to know my history because our education has failed to give black people a sense of bearing & pride. All I meant to say is that no one is going to pull us out of the gutter. we have to have perspective and know that we have to make an extra effort to free ourselves or we will stay at the bottom. Even history or life can tell u that blaming your past, making excuses never give you success or freedom. only those who have vision and understanding, love to unite people can bring change. I am not you enemy though u call me a racist.
Columbus history should be deleted from Trinidad. .Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India.
I live in trinidad and i am an idian if you don't like it your stupid but if you do your the best thank lords for trinidad and history my life is now endless very hard to make me angry i love you trinidad your the best
Trinidad blacks don't want to learn Hinduism, but they are quick to give verdict on what they are supremely ignorant of. Whereas, the hindus learn the bible without fear, and they laugh at the Trinidad blacks who want to surrender to a jam-and-wind-and-can-still-go-to-heaven religion called Christianity. l don't think Lord Jesus is so quick to sway to that mamaguy-mentality. Ask any african in Trinidad about his African God, and they cannot answer. But hindus are not so ignorant of their hinduism. Now, Trinidad blacks are dyeing their hair golden, to look like the obviously superior white people, as if to snatch gifts from God's Hand, instead of waiting longer to be given such gifts. So, l bared my soul -- but l love black women, l cannot deny that truth.
You fail to realize why african trinis do not know their original culture, religion, language, traditions etc. They were stripped of their culture and it was white washed. From their names down to their appearance. Africans were forced to become Christian, learn English and abide by Western norms/standards. Christianity was used to brainwash african slaves and justify slavery. Hinduism is not african culture or religion. Indians did not get stripped of their culture. Stop be so ignorant and REALIZE why.
slavery was implemented by God, to up-lift the mind-set of the enslaved peoples, mostly because their backward and head-hunting days were bearing down upon the angels who were suffering unnatural disasters on the heavenly plane, perhaps mildly, but noticeably harmful. Slavery was a divine tool of God, to wash away the sins of the slaves. That is why God sent Moses, to free the Israelites, because their sins were washed away significantly. It would be sinful therefore, to let the Israelites continue under the pharaoh's hard lifestyle. And so that bible-scenario could easily be seen in those later slavery days when the brits and Spanish were given access to the unsuspecting arawaks and caribs.
Yup Hebrews Israelites in Trinidad is still under captivity for our ancestors disobedience to Yah (God) commendeths. We are in a 400 year captivity since 1619 smh. So Israel has to wait until Yah returns to release up from bondage.
You actually tried to tie slavery in with the creator of all things . The most high . Cant you see how backwards that sounds, something clearly isn't right with you , You need help
@@realityx3349 the sad thing is.. Slave masters used the bible to justify slavery. That is why there's people like that person who thinks slavery was good. It's only one of the tool that the whites used to brainwash slaves into think whiter is righter or closest to purity. Trinis need to get out of this disgusting mindset.
I was born in America but my family was born in Trinidad so nice to know that
Love to my ancestors that we taken from my father's village in Africa and now their children are in Trinidad
I'm a black, Chinese, Indian, Portuguese Trinidadian.. Mixed is the word..
Portuguese Trinidadian here 🇵🇹 🇹🇹
@Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh I was born in Trinidad so I guess I'm a native..
There is no such thing you are what your father is. Portuguese is not a people is an identification of a country. Please know its not an indication of race or nationality.
Thanks for the history lesson.
He rediscovered
I live in trinidad. I didn't know the history of where I live, until I clicked on this video......
It was the Chinese who were sent to work in the sugar cane fields by the British. Cutting cane was hard work and many ran away and did washing and cooking for the British soldiers. It was then the British brought the Indians to work the cane fields. The Portuguese were also brought from the Azors in Portugal to work the field in Guiana and Trinidad. When I visited the Azors our tour guide told us about their people were sent to work the fields because of the poverty in the Azors at that time.
nice. to the point. _JC
Well done so proud of you guys
I love the presentation..but really dislike references to "Caribs" and "Arawaks". It is so basic and a tad unenlightened. These first peoples were actually the Ciboneys, the Kalinagos ,the Cairi, the Igneri the Taino, and so on. Many dislike the UK approved version of history which re-names lesser-friendly-to-them tribes effectively robbing them of their individual identities.
Most would appreciate a more accurate account than what we were taught in our West Indian Readers.
Our History is so rich and I would really like to see someone capture its more defining moments and stories in a way that we can all respect and view with a sense of pride.
Natives called it Iere before it became know as Trinidad
Id like to here hows that said also your source please
@@init-rc7gc you can google it they had names for the whole caribbean before they got the names we know now
Beautiful...thank you!!!
Thanks for the history lesson.😃😄
God bless T&T and make it great again.
"again"?🤔
@Rance Kanhai i am
@@mistereuro yes we are heading a dark path is up the us to stand up
People don't seem realize that these natives are NOT Indians. This mistake was originally made by Columbus himself. They are actually a branch of the Inuit people living in modern-day Alaska & northern Canada. They are originally from Siberia & Mongolia.
Explains why I always appreciated this video czcams.com/video/Kxdqjn1sFM8/video.html
Afrocanuk damn are you uneducated.
Afrocanuk so so true
Yes they are alaskan natives
man i just realize the first inhabitants of trinidad were arawaks from guyana.
@Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh Correct! Distant relatives from Asia.
Great video!
As a researcher I’m very passionate about history and very concerned about its accuracy. I commend the effort made by these students in mapping the historical timeline of Trinidad and Tobago. However please permit to make one slight correction.
Although it is mentioned the Cedula of Population was initiated by French Planter ‘Philip Rose Roume de St. Laurent’, your explanation is not clear if this took place while ‘Don José Maria Chacón’ was still the Spanish governor at the time. In fact the Cedula of Population came into effect 1783, around the same time ‘Don José Maria Chacón’ was appointed Governor in 1783/4. In short, the Cedula of Population encouraged French Immigrants and their slaves to settle here while we were under Spanish rule. Trinidad became a British Colony when Don Chacón surrendered his Governorship to the British1797.
Agree.. we are screwed up in Trinidad ..All english street names such as Picton. st..and others should be renamed with slaves names .The English were cruel we should be reminded about that... Slaves such as Dagga whom rebelled in st joseph together with three others against the British battalion and were put up against a firing squad and killed they showed no fear and turned their back against the guns..George earl park was the Venue..Trins
have lost all sense of where they originated the Indians held on to their culture,,
@@kellotherig we need more ppl like u who know the facts will love to learn more
Another part interesting part missing: you can add Latvia (in Northern Europe)as one of the colonizers.In 1640 Trinidad and Tobago was bought by Duke of Courland Jacob who sent Curonian(Latvian) settlers(80 families) to T&T in 1654.They were not slaughtering people, mainly exporting goods and doing agriculture.
In 1664 T&T was taken over by British Empire (some sources mention Dutch) and Duke Jacob's ownership ended. Proof can be still found today:Fort Jacob (now James), Great Courland Bay.
i have trinidad lineage on my father’s side. i believe there might be portuguese down my line bc my last name is portuguese
@Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh what i meant by trinidadian lineage is that my family on my father’s side are all from trinidad
this helped me sooo much
good stuff right here
Thanks
Thank God for history
the world ends when God has to go to sleep -- when God awakens, all this beautiful sweet lifestyle you lose, will be reborn again, on God's next day, when He awakens. And God lives for 100 yrs -- then dies = goes back to God's true form where God is not male or female or is of any religion --- as God says = l go back to My Beyond-Beyond-Original-Original Divine Self = this game ends (perhaps for a short while, then begins again, hopefully).
Nice.✋
You're going by conventional traditional British history. See if you can find the real history?
It didn't become a British monarchy, it became a British colony!
+Mr Reset you're skimming across slavery and peoples suffering like a stone tic-tac-toe-ing across the surface of the water.
Al Foyle I mean england and Britain has straight facts if anything it’s more accurate. They ruled us at one point, they would know
one question were are the slave ships ?
History cool
As far as I am aware of the Duchy of Courland never owned Tobago or Trinidad by did establish outpost mainly in Tobago and some in Trinidad.
Well, it's interesting, you should learn about it if you want.
I feel like crying
Watch Marvin Coleman (Message You My Carribean West Indian and African American Bros & Sisters).
we still call the indigenous people Caribs and Arawaks??? I mean when you want to educate people , please be more explanatory and call the native people by their proper names, Tainos and Kalinagos.
Why b/C someone decided Arawak was the language of the Taino .., 🙄., soon the story will change again
Wow you it was so long ago.
KinkIAnne I agree with you
i just heard from another channel that the first slaves came in the 1600s
i'm confused.
Spanish Monarchy!? U mean Spanish colony. Great video btw.
From what I gather Amerindians were the original slave source but many died of diseases in large numbers and also had home field advantage to easily escape so they replaced them with Sub Saharan Africans but then Sub Saharan Africans started to resist more so they freed them and brought over new slaves from South Asia and then much later East Asia.
That's a lie.
@Ronald Honore 😂😂
👍👍👍👍
Caribs and arawaks your missing the other facts that Africans were there before slavery. Predateting Columbus. But this was truly a nice piece.❤
If that was the case why did Columbus call them Indians or he didn’t see them
God bless bjrds
Thanks. But some had poor pronunciation.
having my kid watch
I from Trinidad
Me to
Thanks for the lesson
Tainos and kalinagos** arawaks and caribs are offensive
Who are the famous black Trini people?
Nicky minàge and Rhianna
Why would the Divali festival have a symbol of a Swastika, very strange.
Their symbol came first. Nazis appropriated it, unfortunately. It was never anything like what the Nazis eventually ended up using it for.
The good.....using photos; paintings and so forth. The Not-so-good....many points in the recount of the history contains errors. 1. Trinidad became a British colony, not a monarchy, at some point. 2. Carnival didn't evolve in Trinidad the way you recounted....there is so much literature to explain that the carnival has European origin and came to T&T through already existing practices. It exists ALL over the world, including all countries of latin America. My aim was just to help you see some of your flaws, although I just gave two. Nevertheless, this was good work.
+Jerome Affonso
In agreement with Trinidad becoming a British Colony rather than a Monarchy. Two entirely different terms
amerindian is no longer an excepted term for first nation people. they were never Indians. that a mistake Columbus made when arriving in the new world.
Really?! On both points. What is the accepted term?
No longer excepted? So it's accepted then?
@@mikemckelvey7144 The preferred term is "First Peoples". Their descendants appreciate being referenced by their actual tribal names... In the US you won't want to call a Cherokee a Cree? Would you? You wouldn't mis-reference a chinese person as Japanese.
Or they could be referred to as indegnous people if we don't know tribal names
@@dannytemplegod9873 you were and are correct
Noooo the first capital of t&t was not port of spain
Jabari Francis Actually the first capital was St Joseph.
Black Seed yea true but it’s commonly mistaken
This Is Some Good Information SUBCRIBE HER!
DatpotatoTho_
Im Chinese Indian Spanish Africa that's just from Trinidad
Well change the name trinidad if you hate him that much cause he named it 3tribudad
God bless birds not there
Were the slaves given any land after the emancipation from the British government?
+MrWebster773 nope only the slave master were reward with land and gold.
+MrWebster773 No, not given land. All kinds of rules and regs were tried to prevent people being independent of the plantation system. Contrast with Barbados, where all the land was already taken up, Trinidad had lots of uncultivated land - thus quite draconian treatment of 'squatters' and bringing in thousands of indentured workers from India. Divide and rule.
They were given pieces of land a group of ppl would buy a large portion of land and give family their own spot
Maritza Piccarillo but the problem now is who are we.. it’s never that simple you’re dealing with human lives, Dna, genes and identities
I agree that no one should ever praise columbus for what he did. But he is not to blame for the state the country is in now...Yes the Europeans started it but who's carrying it out now? It sad to hear about the corruption, racial division and hatred and greed... With all due respect I think blaming dead people for why Trinidad is messed up is why no one sees it necessary to take up their own responsibility to raise up and be a better people. (I not judging nobody but we all have to check ourselves that's all myself included)
You speak without knowing but that's ok. U have that freedom because our ancestors did not look back but forward. You take care now.
heaty007 I was thinking the exact same thing that after emancipation of the slaves in Trinidad they sought out Indian workers and then the Indian workers were given land for their efforts but the Africans were not given anything you're absolutely right the past affects the future but we need to work on building educating ownership worldwide
UMM.......you can't check yourself if you have generations of 100's of years of other people "checking" you. It's their fault we're not as educated as we need to be to better the country.. soo
Janelle Reid most o
Janelle Reid true that's so true...No one wants to be a leader so everyone follows...
I made this comment over a year ago. that las t response is shocking and very judgemental especially as you definitely don't know why I said that. I have and continue to experience negativity from others because I am black. today even I heard a racist comment referring to dark skin. I told her all colonized places have a false ideology because of our past. I never said that Columbus had no part to play. His part is significant! So I have made an extra effort to know my history because our education has failed to give black people a sense of bearing & pride. All I meant to say is that no one is going to pull us out of the gutter. we have to have perspective and know that we have to make an extra effort to free ourselves or we will stay at the bottom. Even history or life can tell u that blaming your past, making excuses never give you success or freedom. only those who have vision and understanding, love to unite people can bring change. I am not you enemy though u call me a racist.
Are you still alive?
Weyy boi is ah pain to listen to dem tlk
im trinadadian
part by the way
I live in Trinidad and slave still exist
No it does not
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Wot d fok iz d sean meeeeen
qwerwe
Hi
Bye.
Columbus history should be deleted from Trinidad. .Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India.
It had african from african to what happen to them
The America had africian be for columbus check your history
Trinidad was never a monarchy. It was first a colony of Spain and then Britain.
And emancipation day.
I live in trinidad and i am an idian if you don't like it your stupid but if you do your the best thank lords for trinidad and history my life is now endless very hard to make me angry i love you trinidad your the best
This is amazing place
you should come
Gerald Pahal are you kalinago Carib?or lokono Arawak?
We see people nakehed eww
too much bullshit you need to study anthropology of Trinidad and Tobago smfh
Canada's history is way better.
No hatting please
Fuck up
Stop hating Canada natives suffered plenty just like ours and they still suffering
Trinidad blacks don't want to learn Hinduism, but they are quick to give verdict on what they are supremely ignorant of. Whereas, the hindus learn the bible without fear, and they laugh at the Trinidad blacks who want to surrender to a jam-and-wind-and-can-still-go-to-heaven religion called Christianity. l don't think Lord Jesus is so quick to sway to that mamaguy-mentality. Ask any african in Trinidad about his African God, and they cannot answer. But hindus are not so ignorant of their hinduism. Now, Trinidad blacks are dyeing their hair golden, to look like the obviously superior white people, as if to snatch gifts from God's Hand, instead of waiting longer to be given such gifts. So, l bared my soul -- but l love black women, l cannot deny that truth.
Anya Bianca big facts sister
bud dinski you are a fool.
Yorubans and shangos baptist
Fuck Hinduism that’s that Indian belief system
You fail to realize why african trinis do not know their original culture, religion, language, traditions etc. They were stripped of their culture and it was white washed. From their names down to their appearance. Africans were forced to become Christian, learn English and abide by Western norms/standards. Christianity was used to brainwash african slaves and justify slavery. Hinduism is not african culture or religion. Indians did not get stripped of their culture. Stop be so ignorant and REALIZE why.
slavery was implemented by God, to up-lift the mind-set of the enslaved peoples, mostly because their backward and head-hunting days were bearing down upon the angels who were suffering unnatural disasters on the heavenly plane, perhaps mildly, but noticeably harmful. Slavery was a divine tool of God, to wash away the sins of the slaves. That is why God sent Moses, to free the Israelites, because their sins were washed away significantly. It would be sinful therefore, to let the Israelites continue under the pharaoh's hard lifestyle. And so that bible-scenario could easily be seen in those later slavery days when the brits and Spanish were given access to the unsuspecting arawaks and caribs.
Yup Hebrews Israelites in Trinidad is still under captivity for our ancestors disobedience to Yah (God) commendeths. We are in a 400 year captivity since 1619 smh. So Israel has to wait until Yah returns to release up from bondage.
You can't be that dumb & stupid, please tell me you are joking?
Wtf are you talking about???? . Slavery is a man made design , what part of God's creation is not free? . Your ignorance makes me sick
You actually tried to tie slavery in with the creator of all things . The most high . Cant you see how backwards that sounds, something clearly isn't right with you , You need help
@@realityx3349 the sad thing is.. Slave masters used the bible to justify slavery. That is why there's people like that person who thinks slavery was good. It's only one of the tool that the whites used to brainwash slaves into think whiter is righter or closest to purity. Trinis need to get out of this disgusting mindset.
Hi
Sasha Singh
Who is Sasha? Where are you from in Trinbago?
Michael Trinidad