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Caribbean Slave Revolts, Ft. Saint Andrew

It Could Happen Here

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Secret Societies

Secret societies are something that are, is something las common in the african main land. And so in trina slave society, as different tribes mixed and mingled on plantations for security reasons, these secret societies continued. They assimilated some european systems of order and designation. So they gave themselves names like major or captain, and described the ties as regiments. The descendants of those societies still exist to this day in trinidad.

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