Bluefields, Nicaragua🇳🇮 | The Jamaican🇯🇲 Connection

In this video, I walk around Bluefield in Nicaragua and speak to some of the locals about the Jamaican Connection in Bluefield.

[@fritzjoseph6575]

The Caribbean influence on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua goes Way back to slavery days. Jamaican presence in Bluefields goes way back to the 1600

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

Do you know the full story.

[@NicaFlow505]

My City that Star. I would like to hear a little more about your experience, Maybe we can do a collaboration Breds 🙌🏽

[@donovantaylor3137]

Thanks for this updated info... in the past Bluefield in Nicaragua use to be very Jamaican and reflective of the Jamaican people who settle there from Westmoreland ....the government of Nicaragua actively changed the character of the area..

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

I am happy you found it useful.

[@owenalexander1128]

The first wave of blacks that arrive to what is now Bluefields happened around the 19th century from Jamaica when the Miskito reserve was still a British protectorate.

[@PurpleRegina]

This is correct! My fam is from Nicaragua’s carribean coast. They’re Miskito

[@quirkleinacircle7795]

Plenty Jamaican people dont know this history cause Jamaica is in the west and any part of history will tell u the first settlers of the Caribbean settled here in St.vincent from Africa as early as the 11 century AD also Marcus Garvey lived here on my island even build schools and he lived in the village where I live just a couple of houses down d road

[@primenicoya]

Prior to the 20th century, many European and American families went to the east coast of Nicaragua for trade, including lumber. These families also came from Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, where they may have had plantations. They brought with them slaves. The slaves did mix with the Miskito Indians in the area. That's why some Miskito have African features. Some of the last names are similar to the Jamaican last names like Ebanks. I did an ancestry DNA test of someone born in Bluefields, and the DNA was from African and European than indigenous. Unfortunately, lots of these families that owned plantations also abused the women who worked on the plantation. That's why some of the bluefield's people have European in their DNA.

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

I appreciate the information. Is there a source that you could share so I could read a little more of the history?

[@primenicoya]

@jamericanyouthtravels1652 Unfortunately, this information was gathered from speaking with my aunts(not biological) who were born there and confirming through DNA that the father of my grandmother was this Samuel Spellman. Her mother worked in his home there. This is some information I did find. www.foresthistory.org.au/Proceedings2004/126.pdf

[@Psumk]

@@jamericanyouthtravels1652 you can start lookup greytown Nicaragua which even used to have a train or even lookup Theo Vons father information. Vanderbuilt had steamers that sailed from rhe Caribbean up to the San Juan River to Lake Nicaragua to transport gold miners for the 1849 California gold rush.

[@lincolnclarke3989]

Love ❤️ bluefields

[@LuciaSanchez-b7e]

Hola calor todo los Qe llege a pais de Lagos y Vilcanes bello hermoso acogedor a todo los Qe llege cienper respetado su ley 🇳🇮💪👍☝️🇳🇮☝️👍💪🇳🇮☝️👍💪🇳🇮

[@dansandiaz9107]

Que se pongan a cocinar la deliciosa comida Jamaiquina, me gusta como elaboran el chivo, el pollo y cola de vaca,etc.

[@mistahrodneyc8483]

It changed a lot . More spanish people than back in the days. Bluefields was a black town when I was growing up.

[@mistahrodneyc8483]

That goes back way before the 70s . Goes back to 1637.

[@quirkleinacircle7795]

Nicaragua is our vincy breddas and sisters that was exile in the Carib wars, we also have people in Belize Honduras Guatamala these r all my people🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

@@quirkleinacircle7795 good to know. Seems like there is a variety of brothers and sisters in. Nicaragua.

[@quirkleinacircle7795]

@@jamericanyouthtravels1652 we r Garifuna people even have our language preserved in these places, they fly our vincy flag high in remberance of all the falling soldiers in the Carib wars, white man killed alot of us

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

@@quirkleinacircle7795 Thanks for the information.

[@quirkleinacircle7795]

@@jamericanyouthtravels1652 what I want to know is what happened to the indiginous peoole of Jamaica because like the Caribs Jamaica supposed to have remenants of the Taihino peoole who is our breddas and sisters of that land, and Im not talking about Maroons theres a great distinction between the 2.

[@mistahrodneyc8483]

You would have to go to the original neighborhoods .

[@n.b.2164]

My family is from the Atlantic Coast. One of my great grandfather's came over from Sweden. So it's a big mixture. I heard one of my great grandmother's studied or lived in Jamaica in her youth. Grew up with English in the house. I know in the recent decades more Spanish people have moved to the Coast.

[@Psumk]

What year did they come from Sweden? Even Theo Von's dad is from the Caribbean and got there from Germany or something. Lol.

[@n.b.2164]

@@Psumk I don't know for sure around the 1890's. He was from Goteborg. I have a German last name, so I have German ancestry as well. It's a big mix.

[@mistahrodneyc8483]

What is the Swedish surname?

[@n.b.2164]

@@mistahrodneyc8483 I don't want to write it here. But the family has a chocolate/confectionery store/factory in Goteborg.

[@Psumk]

@@n.b.2164 were there women also? If so what’s their mtdna? I have a viking/irish one.

[@dannysmith7273]

Great video love it

[@therealchrishill]

Great video and very informative!

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jean_carlos_shells]

Great video thanks for making it

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

Tim glad you like it.

[@BrittEsco]

This where my dad is from 🇳🇮. I’ve always wanted to know why he was from Nicaragua but has a Jamaican like accent. Now I know. I never asked him when he was alive lol.

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

Awesome!!

[@yaggaprince]

Ask dem about Juan Matta Ballesteros. Big drug lord in the 80's in Nicaragua.

[@jean_carlos_shells]

That’s a Honduran drug load help in prison in the states he’s 78 years old still captured

[@morland4712]

Great video! My dad is from Bluefield and I was there this past summer. I got a chance to have an informal interview with the Vice Mayor. You might find it interesting. Long version kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYiQlaOPar-Wlas Short version VIdeo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZvanJ-lYt-ro8k In this video a historian talks about the challenges facing Black history in Bluefields. kzbin.infoUZPpWUsHeW8

[@markhunter1]

mmm what else !

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

What is it they are saying that you do not agree with? It seems like you know something they are not saying.

[@markhunter1]

@@jamericanyouthtravels1652 they are far from the grill.

[@markhunter1]

I'll send u the links , so u can read about it.

[@jamericanyouthtravels1652]

@@markhunter1 Okay please do.

[@dslym370]

Great video brethren, I want tk start doing something like this. There an island of the coast of Columbia with black ppl that talk patois.

[@EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi]

It name is San Andres!!

[@eliethadelsocorroespinozau6789]

Esa isla es legitimamente de Nicaragua pero fue robada por colombia, desacatando el fallo internscional a favor de Nicaragua, por eso en san andres hablan patois, ingles de bluefield y tiene algun otro idioma de la costa atlantica de Nicaragua , es decir por eso en san andres se habla los mismo idiomas que se hablan en bluefield y en la costa atlantica de Nicaragua porque es logico si es la misma poblacion de Nicaragua, es decir porque los habitantes de la isla de san andres son los mismos Nicaraguenses legitimos, pero colombia perdio en la corte internacional y no respeto el territorio de Nicaragua y desde entonces los colombianos estan en la isla san andres ilegalmente , ya que ellos debieron desalojar la isla cuamdo perdieron en el juicio internacional que fue ganado a favor de Nicaragua ,juicio internacional donde se demostro que la isla san andres pertenece legitimamente a Nicaragua, pero colombia no quiso desalojar la isla, desacatando la orden internacional para ursupar la isla san andres de Nicaragua ,, saludos

[@eliethadelsocorroespinozau6789]

​​@@EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi thats right , my friend that island , its called like that