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Why enslaved Africans continue the culture of painting their buildings in blue in the Caribbean
In South Carolina and Georgia, the color blue holds a significant place in the cultural beliefs of the inhabitants mostly made of descendants of enslaved Africans. It is considered that haint blue has the spiritual ability to protect occupants who whitewash their buildings in such color from evil. The other school of thought, according to…
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How African slaves in the Caribbean reinvented their own aphrodisiacs with herbs they came to find
One of the growing cultures in many West African and Caribbean countries is the use of bitter...
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Women ‘Rule’ Over Men on Guna Yala Island
Among the over 300 Islands in the Caribbean lay an Island off the Eastern Coast of Panamá...
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The Caribbean People Who Were On Slave Ships But Never Enslaved
The Garifuna people, descendants of Carib, Arawak and West Africa have always fought for their...
