This Map Shows EXACTLY Which Island Your Trinidadian Family Came From Before Trinidad

👉 THE SURNAME PAPERS — the full collection: https://theafricangenome.com The birthplace column, island by island, with the counts as the registrar entered them. In the 1813 Trinidad slave register there were 25,696 people. 13,984 were born in Africa. Of the 11,633 born in the Caribbean, only 7,088 were born in Trinidad — which means 4,545 of them were born on another island, and the registrar wrote down which one. Martinique 962. Grenada 746. Saint Vincent 438. Guadeloupe 428. Everybody in this corner of the internet reads that register for the African nation. This video reads the other column. Four waves, four reasons, thirty years apart: the 1783 Cedula de Poblacion, which offered 32 acres to a white Catholic settler and 16 acres to a free person of colour, and brought the French-island families south; Fedon's rebellion of 1795, which held Grenada for fifteen months and sent a whole landowning class running to Trinidad when it collapsed; the 9,000 Africans landed FREE in Trinidad between 1834 and 1867 who founded Belmont, Laventille, Morvant and Arouca and appear in no slave register at all; and the biggest wave of the four — Barbados, which is barely in the 1813 list, because those families arrived after freedom and paid their own way. Also in this video: why Trinidad has French surnames when it was never a French colony; why the chain of islands runs the way it does and Jamaica does not; which part of Trinidad each island settled in; and the three checks that settle it for your own family — including the one that costs nothing and is decided by which church your family was baptised in. Comments: the island your family says it came from before Trinidad, which side of the family it comes down (mother's or father's), and the oldest person you ever heard say it out loud. Subscribe to The African Genome. #Trinidad #Trinidadian #Grenada #StVincent #Barbados #Martinique #Caribbean #Surnames #BlackHistory #AfricanAncestry #Genealogy #TrinidadAndTobago #CaribbeanHistory