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Lest We Forget
By Tenement Yaad MediaHistory
Lest We Forget episodes
- The Fight to Own Land In Jamaica
On August 1st, 1838, Jamaica, alongside the rest of the countries in the British West Indies, achieved full emancipation and thus all enslaved Black people on the island, gained their freedom. Immediately after, the topic of land became a major issue. For even though freedom day come for all Black persons, a series of laws & taxes were created, effectively blocking Blacks people & in some English speaking - Caribbean countries, Indians, from owning land. A history that countries are still reckoning with today.
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33 min - The Salt 'Plantations' of the Caribbean
Content Warning: this episode contains mentions of violence, slavery and wider harm.
Most scholarship on Caribbean chattel slavery of enslaved Black people largely covers the the sugar and tobacco plantation systems throughout the region. However, there was another massive industry that was built upon the enslavement of Black people - salt. Saltpans were spread across the region where throughout the 18th and 19th century, the region was one of the main supplier of salt to Europe and the United States; and as events unfold, the documentation of the life of one enslaved black woman who worked on a Caribbean saltpan played a major role in the fight for emancipation in the British West Indies. Still, it is the history of salt production in the region that shaped the West Indian diet we know today.
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45 min - The Grenadian Revolution, Part 5: We Should Move, Rather Than Wait To Be Killed
On March 10, 1979, according to all persons who were personally involved in the documentation of the revolution, the New Jewel Movement leadership got word through their informats at senior levels of the police force, that Eric Gairy left order for the arrest and assassination of the leading members of the political party. Through a pattern of behaviour, NJM leadership knew that if they wanted to live to see another day, they would have to act soon. So on Tuesday, March 13, 1979, a group of young persons would attempt an event that has never happen in Caribbean history: a successful revolution in the anglophone Caribbean.
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40 min - The Grenadian Revolution, Part 4: A Jewel Shines Through
Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of police brutality
As Sir Eric Gairy’s tenure as head of government continued throughout the 1970’s, the country was on the brink of economic and social collapse. In the wake of Bloody Sunday and Bloody Monday occurred, two of the most ferocious cases of police brutality in Caribbean history, Gairy was beginning to face opposition from all sides. However of all the oppositions, one stood out: an organised group of young professionals who called themselves the New Jewel Movement.
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45 min - The Grenadian Revolution, Part 3: Aliens, Mongoose & The 1970's
In the midst of Grenada’s independence, the country was experiencing islandwide strikes and protests due to its economic deterioration and domestic repression in the hands of its first prime minister, Eric Gairy. These were highlighted by the many cases of Gairy’s alleged bribes and corruption, real estates scams, extortion deals, sex scandals, international partnership for his own self interest, and his now growing obsession with religion and flying saucers. This period also saw the vast activities of the Mongoose Gang - Gairy's allegedly secret police which came down on anyone and anything that stood in his way of power.
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37 min - The Grenadian Revolution, Part 2: The Rise of Gairyism
After years of societal tension in Grenada, everything would come to a head in 1951 at an event now known as the 1951 Revolution. The person who propelled this event was a former primary school teacher name Eric Matthew Gairy. Due to the success of this 1951 event, Gairy would become Grenada’s leading trade unionist and soon after, Grenada’s most powerful political leader. Over the next decade and throughout the 1960’s, Grenada became the setting for Gairyism.
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30 min - The Grenadian Revolution, Part 1: Post Emancipation Woes
1950 would be one of the most significant years to understand the Grenadian Revolution, however, the events of this year were years in the making. It was years of build up tension arising from the neglect of the country’s majority black and poor population, coupled with the organising influence of Uriah Butler in nearby Trinidad and Tobago and the national black power empowerment movement enhance by of T.A. Marryshow. This episode also contains a brief history of the Banda Massacre which exposes the dark history of nutmeg cultivation and European colonisation.
The audio that opened this episode is a recording of McGodden Kerensky "Cacademo" Grant, one of the persons who started the Working Men and Women's Association with T. Albert Marryshow. Later, he would become National Chairman of the New JEWEL Movement (NJM) Council of Delegate. At the time of the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), he worked with the militia until his death in 1982.
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22 min - The Grenadian Revolution Trailer
A introduction of our five part series entirely dedicated to Grenadian Revolution as we examine the events, people, causes & consequences that led to the March 1979 overthrow of the Sir Eric Gairy government by the New Jewel Movement.
The audio compilation features the voices of Maurice Bishop, Claudette Pitt, Sir Eric Gairy, a rare recording of Cacademo Grant & the first radio broadcast to hit Grenada's airwave on the morning of March 13, 1979
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2 min - Fedon's Rebellion
In March of 1795, a French free coloured, Julien Fédon, would lead a revolt against the white British elites on the island of Grenada. Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution and activities happening in Guadeloupe; for the next 16 months Fédon would range a battle against the English colonisers where the rebellion would be one of the most important events that led to emancipation of enslaves Black people in the anglophone Caribbean in 1838.
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22 min - Alexander Bedward
Content Warning: this episode contains mentioned of physical and emotional abuse.
Alexander Bedward, emerged during 1889 as a minister in the Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church. Throughout the 1890’s and beyond, he would emerged as one of the leading christian preachers in Jamaica. Tales of his healing power and his power of prophecy spread across the island and the rest of Caribbean region where Bedward emerge as one of the first black nationalists in post-emancipation Jamaica.
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About Lest We Forget
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The Lest We Forget Historical Podcast reflects on past events of the Caribbean and how these events shape the society we live in today.