Sir Godfrey GreggThe most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition Augusta Savage started sculpting as a child in the 1900s using what she could get her hands on: the clay that was part of the natural landscape in her hometown of Green Cove Springs, Florida. Eventually…
Sir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG COLIHAUT UPRISING – After the Treaty of Paris of 1763, that ceded Dominica to Britain, France in 1778, waged a successful invasion and recaptured the island during the American Revolution. However, the island was returned to Britain as part of the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE FIRST CARIB WAR – Crucial in the battle between European countries, namely Britain and France to build empires in the Eastern Caribbean were two things, sugar and slaves. The Caribbean islands were prime real estate for producing the profitable commodity sugar and the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Grenadines is an island chain that is divided between the island nations of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. They lie between the islands of Saint Vincent in the north and Grenada in the south. Neither Saint Vincent nor Grenada are Grenadine islands. The islands north of…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggHistory Highlight: The 2nd Carib War on St. Vincent TOPICS:St. Vincent And The Grenadines Genealogy And History POSTED BY: ADMIN JANUARY 28, 2016 Peace and tranquility were hard to come by in early St. Vincent. If hurricanes and earthquakes were not enough to shake up the growing population, restless…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE BRIGANDS WAR – The Brigands were a name given by the British to runaway slaves, free coloreds, French army deserters, who called themselves Republicans and whites, all who held democratic philosophies in St. Lucia. The war, one of the many rebellions that took…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE CONSPIRACY OF 1735 – Fueled by severe depression, drought and an earthquake in 1735, a century before emancipation and several decades before the Haitian Revolution, many of the planter class of Antigua had no choice but to cut costs, which included their refusal to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggANATOMY OF A GENOCIDE YOUNG ISLAND is named after SIR WILLIAM YOUNG, Governor of Dominica and President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands (which included Grenada, Tobago, Dominica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines). Here are letters from Young to the British…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE CURAÇAO SLAVE REVOLT OF 1795 – The morning of August 17, 1795 saw the beginnings of an uprising on the Knip plantation in the Dutch colony of Curaçao. Led by a slave named Tula, approximately 40 to 50 slaves met in in the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBlack history month Dr Cecil Arthur Cyrus .Born in layou January 6th1929.After graduation from queen’s university in Belfast Ireland ;Mr Cyrus kept upgrading his skills .He was orthopedic surgeon,gynecologist/obs;ENT specialist and eye specialist.ON Mondays and Fridays he had teaching sessions for doctors and nurses(Rn and NA).HE is a gardener,author,tailor…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggNever Forget: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas In 1919, after the end of World War I, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas began to unionize. This attempt to form unions, triggered white vigilantism and mass killings, that left 237 Blacks dead. Towards the end…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg FÉDON’S REBELLION – On February 10, 1763, Grenada was formally ceded to Britain via the Treaty of Paris, however, much of the colony’s populace was unhappy with British rule. Fédon’s Rebellion began on March 2, 1795 as an uprising against British colonialism in Grenada.…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE SLAVE REBELLION OF TROIS-RIVIÈRES – On August 26, 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was adopted by the French National Assembly. It stated explicitly that, “men are born free and equal in rights.” However, this proclamation was not applied to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggASHTON WARNER, AN ENSLAVED AFRICAN IN SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, DESCRIBES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A “FIELD SLAVE” OF A “KIND MASTER” ON THE CANE GROVE ESTATE (This book is available for free online from many sites and in many formats. Just Google it): I shall…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggGood afternoon Gregg family around the globe. Here are a few pictures from the archives. Our mother Deldie Godfrey as Prison Officer Godfrey as Supreme Court Bailiff Sharol-Rose has definitely grown up Average Rating 0 out of 5 stars. 0 votes.You must log in to submit a…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE AFRICAN SLAVE REVOLT OF 1825 – By 1825, the Spanish Empire in the Americas had all but collapsed. At the same time, the colonists and planter class in Cuba were heavily involved in transforming the island into the most prolific sugar colony in the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE ST.KITTS SLAVE RIOTS OF 1834 – After the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies in 1833, colonial powers needed a way to maintain slaves, yet “follow the law”, thus, the apprenticeship system in 1834. This system in itself was a form of modified…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggIT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTH BY Natasha Gregg THE SAINT JOHN INSURRECTION OF 1733 – The St. John Insurrection of 1733 was one of the earliest slave rebellions in the Caribbean. At the time St. John (together with St. Thomas & St. Croix) was part of the Danish West Indies,…
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