Everyone needs to follow ‘KnowYourCaribbean’ on Instagram. Everyone.

I always get questions about the picture for my header on my profile so here’s the full picture. 🫶🏾.📷: knowyourcaribbean.

Vintage Haiti 🇭🇹
1920s-1940s compilation
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Thank you #knowyourcaribbean for sharing! An excerpt from a book at the #NationalArchives in London which records the signature of Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer

We are unsure of the name of the book or the context re: the signature

Have you ever heard of Tire Machèt? Tire Machèt has roots in the Haitian Revolution, when the revolutionaries were often forced to fight with fewer guns than soldiers. It’s a combination of African stick-fighting techniques and European fencing.

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Who knew?!
'Doin it' is almost 30 years old, and I just found out!
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absolutely love knowyourcaribbean on Instagram

#gangsta
#KnowYourCaribbean #kalinago #stlucia #hotlikepepper #scotchbonnet #indigenous #caribbeanhistory

If you don't follow 'knowyourcaribbean' on insta, you should.

This piece on the history of breadfruit, Captain Bligh and SVG🇻🇨 is rather interesting.

In the 3rd and installment on the series of discussions on race, class & education in the UK, we’re joined by non-other than my mum, Dr Lemah Bonnick

#HUTL #blackfeminism #Knowyourcaribbean #Caribbeanhistory #Jamaica #Lsegender #Blackculturalarchives #IslandGirlsRock

I spoke with the brilliant Fiona Compton of the great instagram page @KnowYourCaribbean about history and culture in the Caribbean and the diaspora as well as her Saint Lucian up bringing 🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨
Full Video here! youtu.be/BqEgsuye9Ug

saw this on FB 🤩

Mighty Grand Piton is a Mecha Anime style film about a young British girl that travels to St. Lucia with her family & accidentally awakens a giant robot

Made by Saint Lucian Andrew @knowyourcaribbean

To learn more about the film, the link is below!! 🇱🇨

• @knowyourcaribbean How we once were. 1950’s and early 1960s Barbados.

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Grand rising all, following on from last week's WNO Windrush Community This is from @knowyourcaribbean worth checking out the caption for this video. The explains how Windrush has impacted their family she found about her grandfather.

AMAZING! There are so many influential and powerful figures like piano prodigy Hazel Scott within our #BlackHistory . We must celebrate all of our legendary talents who came before us, to spotlight their accomplishments! 👏🏾🎹
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The work Fiona Compton is doing with Know Your Caribbean — the dedication, the depth of research — is unmatched and remains a testament to our collective spirit as a people 🖤

Check it out here: instagram.com/knowyourcaribb…

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A bit of #VincyHistory via KnowYourCaribbean. Most of us know of Sarah Bartman, the Hottentot Venus as an example of how black people placed in human zoos alongside bearded ladies and conjoined twins

#Gullah #Geechee Afro-Caribbean Connection w/ the Word JUK 🌍 #weoutchea #linguistics #diaspora #colonialism sunnmcheaux.com TT/IG: @knowyourcaribbean

“Fire, Fury and Freedom” tells the story Flor Bois Gaillard & the Nèg Mawon of St Lucia - Freedom fighters who had put an end to slavery, only to be captured & imprisoned in a castle in Portsmouth. Created by @KnowYourCaribbean’s Fiona Compton & Hailey Gonzales! #NLAReimagined