Carnival: persistent resistance and survival of cultural heritage

Devil of the Molasses

JAB MOLASSIE

chattel slavery
CANNES BRULLES

CANE IS BURNING

CARNIVAL



As visitors and inhabitants of Trinidad & Tobago, Brasil, and even France celebrate "Farewell to flesh" and Carnival, we are prompted to remember celebrate the sterling efforts of our ancestors to keep the culture alive.

Elma Francois

1897-1944

Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler

1897-1977

Cyril Lionel Robert James

1901 - 1989

Claudia Jones

1915 - 1964

Professor Errol Hill

1921-2003

Aldwyn 'Lord Kitchener' Roberts
1922-2000

Andre Michael Tanker

1941-2003

May their efforts on the stage of Politics, Independence, Education. Nationalism, Liberation, Pan Africanism, Trade Unionism, Equality and Culture never be extinguished.

licks like fire

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run or surrender

SANS HUMANITE

WE POUR LIBATIONS IN THEIR HONOUR