Archive for May, 2007
The Second Carib War on St. Vincent
By Suzanne Burnette – Archivist & Developer – SVGancestry.com
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 natives were another. Those natives were called Caribs, and St. Vincent had been their home for hundreds of years before European [...]
Carib History
The Caribs of St. Vincent are believed to have lived on the island since about 1300. For hundreds of years, they thrived here by fishing and farming. These Caribs were known as “Red Caribs.” Most scholarly research on the St. Vincent Caribs states that some time before 1700, a wrecked slave ship [...]
