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#55. Warm Water, Cool Drink, and Caribbean Sun: The Joys of Trinidad’s Carnival with Fayola King Lawrence (founder of Come to the Islands)

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The Differences Between Carnival and Marty Groh

Carnival is an iteration of the word carnival, which was all the parades and masquerade balls that they used to have before lent. In Mardi Gras New Orleans, you have to be part of a crew in order to be in the parade. So it's either your performing person or you're part of the crews. The versions that these slaves were able to take in and then produce what they could with what they had is a lot of the time what carnival looks like in countries like Trinidad, like Brazil,. Like New Orleans for Mardi GrAS.

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