Caribbean Archives - Page 5 of 10

Madge Saunders

Jamaican Christian minister and community worker

Lumina Sophie

1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.

Rachel Pringle Polgreen

In the 1770s and 1780s, hotelier and brothel owner Rachel Pringle Polgreen was one of the first mulatto women to own and operate a business in colonial Barbados.

Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.

Teresa de la Parra

Venezuelan writer, considered one of the most important Latin American literary figures of the early 20th century.

Ines

Doña Ines was a fifteenth-sixteenth century caciqua of Taíno origin

Marie-Claire Bonheur Dessalines

Marie-Claire and her husband became the first emperor and empress of Haiti.

Odaline de la Martinez

Composer, conductor and a graduate in maths and music, Odaline was the first woman, in 1984, to conduct a Prom in 89 seasons of the BBC Promenade Concerts, since it’s inception in 1895.