The Know Your Caribbean Podcast

Wuk up and Landownership - life in 1850's Barbados


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Reading excerpts of Charles Day's book - Five years the West Indies, this highly racist account of life in the Caribbean unintentionally captures the beauty of Black people in the Caribbean.


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Buckra - buckraNOUNbuckra, buckras

derogatory US, West Indian 

  • A white person, especially a man.
Origin

Mid 18th century from Ibibio and Efik (m)bakara ‘European, master’.



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