North Manzanilla Trinidad - The Past is in the Present

Mention the name Manzanilla in Trinidad and people immediately think of miles of beachfront with towering coconut trees. However, there is another side to Manzanilla in Trinidad. In many ways the history of this other side of Manzanilla Trinidad is associated with war. So we head to North Manzanilla and a past that is filled with slavery and war. As we explore the history of the 3rd West India Regiment, its disbandment in Trinidad and the hard life of the 1830's and 1840's we see that in Manzanilla Trinidad the past is truly in the present.
Photo Attributions
From the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Black Soldiers of the West India Regiment, 1850s", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed December 27, 2021, slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryima...
Colonel A. B. Ellis (died 1895), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By M. & N. Hanhart, after J. Brandard - National Army Museum, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
‘A Private of the 5th West India Regiment’ in Charles Hamilton Smith, Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, According to the Last Regulations 1812 (Colnaghi and Company, 1815). Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library.
Cracking Cocoa - www.flickr.com/photos/caribbe...
Train Photo - Glen Beadon
ww2dbaseUnited States Navy, Identification Code 80-G-228118, Public Domain
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Ouagadougou Shuffle by The Mini Vandals featuring Koita and Lasso
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[@pointboy12]

Did you find this video informative?

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@gabielle dennis I am glad that you found it informative.

[@marciamiranda1943]

Definitely Brian. I am kinda glad you retired.😉 You share such interesting information and the visuals make it all the more captivating. Thank you. You have our support for this great fun venture you're doing.

[@pointboy12]

@@marciamiranda1943 I am certainly enjoying it.

[@donnadwarika6370]

Thanks always fo the history and amazing trip

[@pointboy12]

It was my pleasure

[@jennyrampersaud2514]

Nice to learn this history it was good to know

[@pointboy12]

I am glad that you found it good

[@reppintrini3576]

Thanks alot brethren.appreciate it very much👍🙏

[@pointboy12]

It was my pleasure

[@sarahsampath2900]

Another information tour thank you Brian and team

[@pointboy12]

You are most welcome

[@anilbaboolal9389]

Very educational video. Keep up the good work!

[@pointboy12]

Thank you

[@pholoacharya416]

very informative, nice work

[@pointboy12]

I am glad you found it informative

[@jeanettemassiah3060]

Thank you very informative

[@pointboy12]

It was my pleasure to create it.

[@lost422011]

Never knew this about North Manzanilla! Thanks for the information!

[@pointboy12]

You are welcome

[@raynicee]

I learned a little history here, thanks!

[@pointboy12]

You are welcome.

[@TheMancrab]

very informative

[@pointboy12]

Thank you

[@kreativemom387]

Great work maybe you should take a trek up camp road someday where the army base was located

[@pointboy12]

Thank you. One day I will

[@editsabal2689]

I left Trinidad some 49 years ago, I always appreciate someone enlightening us, especially when we've passed this area many times, but failed to notice the importance of said areas. Thanks again!

[@pointboy12]

You are welcome

[@KurkronSlayedBaki]

Thank you, I was born in North Manzanilla and dedicated in the same church. I am a decendant of one of the man dingo soldier, Paul Beekley, I need to do an investigation into my past. My name is Heston Blake, 3279540, thanks in advance.

[@seanmungal1377]

This is really great stuff!

[@pointboy12]

Thank you

[@alfaakilu7191]

As an historian myself I applaud this effort. Some facts I did not know. Thanks again. Keep up the good work.

[@pointboy12]

Thank you

[@susieboodoo8464]

Wow! Never heard this part of our history. Interesting. Never went North Manzanilla either, as you said we take the right to the beaches

[@pointboy12]

Yes very few ever go left.

[@marttinaalbert5009]

ALWAYS WONDER WHERE THE LEFT ROAD TOOK YOU,WILL VISIT.BUT I NEVER SAW THAT CHURCH OPEN

[@pointboy12]

The church is definitely operational although I have never been there when they are open.