Episodes

  • Trinidad’s 1937 Oilfield Uprising | The Strike That Changed the Colony

    Trinidad’s 1937 Oilfield Uprising | The Strike That Changed the Colony
    Oct 22 2026
    Why did an oilfield strike in southern Trinidad spread into a colony-wide confrontation over wages, race, and political power? Sources: Trinidad and Tobago National Archives; Butler Papers; Commission of Inquiry into the Disturbances in Trinidad, 1937; British Colonial Office reports; Trinidad Guardian archive
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    16 mins
  • The Great Kingston Earthquake | January 1907

    The Great Kingston Earthquake | January 1907
    Oct 22 2026
    How did a few minutes of shaking destroy Jamaica’s commercial capital and expose the limits of colonial disaster response? Sources: Jamaica Gleaner archive; United States Geological Survey historical earthquake records; Jamaica Legislative Council papers; British Colonial Office dispatches; National Library of Jamaica
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    16 mins
  • The Jamaican Labour Rebellion | From Frome to Kingston

    The Jamaican Labour Rebellion | From Frome to Kingston
    Oct 22 2026
    How did strikes by sugar workers in 1938 become the turning point that created Jamaica’s modern labor movement and accelerated self-government? Sources: Jamaica Labour Department reports; Jamaica Gleaner archive; UK Colonial Office reports; National Library of Jamaica; Norman Manley papers
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    16 mins
  • The Demerara Slave Rebellion | Guyana, 1823: Quamina and the Plantation Revolt

    The Demerara Slave Rebellion | Guyana, 1823: Quamina and the Plantation Revolt
    Oct 22 2026
    How did enslaved workers in Demerara organize across plantations, and why did the colonial government respond with military force and mass executions? Sources: British Parliamentary Papers; Colonial Office records; Guyana National Archives; The Missionary Register; Emilia Viotti da Costa, Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood
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    16 mins
  • Jonestown | Guyana, 1978: The Settlement That Ended in Mass Death

    Jonestown | Guyana, 1978: The Settlement That Ended in Mass Death
    Oct 22 2026
    How did an American religious community in Guyana become the site of the largest mass death in modern Caribbean history? Sources: U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings; Guyana government investigative records; FBI Jonestown files; Guyana National Archives; The New York Times contemporaneous reporting
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    17 mins
  • The Barbados Labour Rebellion | Barbados, 1937: The Week That Changed Politics

    The Barbados Labour Rebellion | Barbados, 1937: The Week That Changed Politics
    Oct 22 2026
    Why did labour unrest over wages, housing, and unemployment spread across Barbados, and how did it lead toward trade-union reform and political change? Sources: Barbados National Archives; Commission on the West Indies, 1938; British Colonial Office records; Barbados Labour Party archives; Hilary Beckles, A History of Barbados
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    17 mins
  • The 1973 Elections and the Birth of Guyana’s One-Party State | Guyana, 1973: Ballot Boxes and Soldiers

    The 1973 Elections and the Birth of Guyana’s One-Party State | Guyana, 1973: Ballot Boxes and Soldiers
    Oct 22 2026
    What happened when soldiers took control of ballot boxes during Guyana’s 1973 election, and how did the disputed result shape decades of rule? Sources: Guyana National Archives; Guyana parliamentary records; Commonwealth observer and diplomatic reports; The Guyana Chronicle archives; Cheddi Jagan, The West on Trial
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    16 mins
  • The Baptist War | Jamaica, 1831: Sam Sharpe and the Christmas Rebellion

    The Baptist War | Jamaica, 1831: Sam Sharpe and the Christmas Rebellion
    Oct 22 2026
    How did a planned strike for freedom become Jamaica’s largest slave revolt and accelerate emancipation across the British Caribbean? Sources: Jamaica Archives and Records Department; National Library of Jamaica; British Parliamentary Papers; Colonial Office correspondence; Mary Turner, Slaves and Missionaries
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    19 mins