A new people forged on St. Vincent from Kalinago and shipwrecked or escaped Africans.
After the Second Carib War, ~4,800 were interned on Balliceaux (half died); 2,026 survivors were landed on Roatán on 12 April 1797 — ancestors of the Garifuna of Central America.
A focused history of the St. Vincent Black Caribs, the Second Carib War and the 1797 deportation to Roatán.
Places the Garifuna within the broader story of the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean colonial conflict (broad context).
Primary-source anthology of European accounts of the Caribs (ancestors of the Garifuna); essential historical context for the Black Carib polity on St. Vincent.
The definitive history of the Black Caribs (Garifuna) of St. Vincent, their formation, wars, and 1797 exile to Central America.
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