10 Facts About Black Caribs

Black Caribs took ethnographic and linguistic notes on the native peoples of these islands, including St Vincent, which he visited briefly.

Later, in 1795, the British governor of St Vincent, William Young, noted in another report, addressed to the British Crown, that the island was populated by Black Caribs enslaved people from two Spanish slave ships that had sunk near the island of San Vincent in 1635 .

However, according to Young, the enslaved people were too independent of "spirit", prompting the Black Caribs to make plans to kill all the African male children.

The governor of the English part of the island, William Young, complained that the Black Caribs had the best land and they had no right to live there.

The treaty delimited the area inhabited by the Black Caribs, and demanded repayment of the British and French plantations of runaway enslaved people who took refuge in St Vincent.

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Apparently, in 1779 the Black Caribs inspired such terror to the British that surrender to the French was preferable than facing the Black Caribs in battle.

Later, in 1795, the Black Caribs again rebelled against British control of the island, causing the Second Carib War.

Since this was too small and infertile a number to maintain the population, the Black Caribs asked the Spanish authorities of Honduras to be allowed to live on land.

Cassava is so closely tied to the Garifuna culture that the very name Garifuna draws its origin from the Black Caribs who were originally called "Karifuna" of the cassava clan.

Canadian musician Danny Michel has recorded an album, Black Caribs Birds Are Dancing Over Me, with a collective of Garifuna musicians.