The Hosay Massacre

Genre: Calypso.
Recalling the events that took place in San Fernando, Trinidad, on 30th October 1884 and what came to be known as the Hosay Massacre.
Social commentary - backed by traditional authentic tassa drums and steelpans.

[@MANUELSilva-qn6dt]

Another masterpiece of musical storytelling!

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Much appreciate.

[@patriciaogilviefrederick46]

Informative.👌👏👏👏 Thank you very much. This should be used in both our Primary and Secondary schools.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Yuo're welcome. Much appreciation for your remarks. Couldn't agree more that it should be taught in our schools.

[@jassiesingh4503]

Mr George Rampersad, I have admired your work over the years and this is one Monumental song that you have done. I should inform you that Dr Satnarine Balkaransingh has included a chapter on this sordid period of our history in his soon-to-be published book on Hosay. I have worked with him on this book and I know the details of the massacre. It is very good that you have brought into the eyes and ears of the general public in Trinidad and Tobago! Thank you!

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. I am glad to hear that the history is being written.

[@patriciakhan3998]

Excellent commentary. George.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Much appreciate. Keep well.

[@dogfo0d]

Sadness and artform expressed as a history musical . Thankyou and blessing Sir . God bless us TOBAGODADIANS ❤

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Much appreciate. Keep well.

[@joanduncan5120]

Thanks for all this info, great work as usual George.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome, Joan. Glad you enjoyed it. Stay well.

[@sunitamahabir-singh5202]

Omg, I did not know about this. Soo sad and shocking indeed. Thankyou for sharing and enlightening us about this Massacre in your talented way 🙏

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Many people don't know because the authotities try to exclude it from the history taught in schools. Wishing you a pleasant day. Keep well.

[@lesterjemmott3778]

Many thanks for the History Lesson…. Universal Blessings to You and Yours

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. Keep safe.

[@izatrini439]

Wow yuh meh some history dey man! Thank you 😊

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Yuh welcome. Glad yuh enloy it. Keep safe.

[@satnarinebalkaransingh3307]

Excellent history of our people told in verse and music.Its memory must not be lost.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Much appreciate.

[@lennarddelanogordon9691]

Thanks for your informative historic timeline of "The Hosay Massacre". Professor George Rampersad I so dubbed , for your continuous academic slant included in your Calypso Classroom renditions. I learn from you with every new release. Thanks.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome, bro. Thanks for the kind words...it inspires me to carry on when people appreciate what I do. Keep safe.

[@derekplummer8970]

I always love your music 🎼 very appropriately worded and thoughtful .

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Much appreciate. Keep well.

[@proj04mansem76]

This is the most impactful account of the biggest stain on our history. Thank you Sarge for not letting it be forgotten lest we dare to repeat it 👋

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Ah hear yuh, mih bredrin. I guess it is not something the authorities wanted "advertised" in the history books.

[@rawleaimey9617]

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[@rawleaimey9617]

⁹British treatment of their labour force in the sugar industry in late 1800s. Rawle Aimey

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

@@rawleaimey9617 I guess it is not something the authorities wanted "advertised" in the history books.

[@shjakes]

George! Your offering taught me more about the Hosay Massacre than any account I have ever read. This was an A-1 composition!! It is a damm shame that there is no major commemoration for this tragic historical event...meanwhile mankind can't wait for the next' Hosay to go and chuck dey waist eh! ☹

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I guess it is not something the authorities want "advertised" in our history books. You are right that important events that should be commemorated from a historical point of view is turning into - as you so correctly put it - "chuck yuh waist".

[@rubyhamckenzie7673]

Beautifully rendered in the evocative rhythms of the steel pan and of Kaiso 4:16 … new for me, and I listened closely. As a qualified lecturer, can you please indicate the source material or archival information that supports the data of this colonial injustice?🙏🏼

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Check the national library NALIS, the national archives of T&T, and the book by Kelvin Singh: The Bloodstained Tombs - The Muharram Massacre in Trinidad.

[@esampson2369]

I had never heard of this. Appreciate your bringing it to light. Thank you.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Tou're welcome. Glad you enjyed it. Have a pleasant day.

[@surindragooljar474]

🙏Namaste Sadhu. Very well researched Lots of Younger generation has any Idea of this History. Many People don't know Names of Family's that Died on that day. Salute to you George. 🙏

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. You are right - no one knows and the authorities are not interested in teaching about it. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@vishnusieurajsingh9175]

First time hearing this account thanks it was really revealing.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome, bro. Glad you enjoyed it. Kep safe.

[@lilianjackson6462]

This is new history to me Thanks

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Many things have been deliberately omitted from our history books. Have a pleasant day.

[@cinnamonenigma]

Thanks for educating us about this event.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Keep safe.

[@irajacoab8547]

Bredda. Really good job. Thanks again eh. Ah car say it nough time, dat we ha tuh write we own history. Ise ah universal ting fuh people tuh tell haaf de story. Stay alive and healthy, use the vervine eh. Doh tell nobody bout da one eh. Dieise we secret.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Ah hear yuh, bro! Yuh know how dem big boy an dem in charge eh want people tuh know - so dey doh "advertised" in de history books.

[@irajacoab8547]

@@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad Hear nah. Yuh ha tuh rember dat south was de hot bed fuh most ah we revolution dem back in de day. It ha so much ting ah de hear coming up down dey. Ah never hear noway else.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

True. Whether is the Canboulay events in Princes Town and San Fernando, ot the Hosay massacre in San Fernando, or the events in Fyzabad in 1937 led by Butler, the south has been in the forefront.

[@kelvingill7758]

Beautiful passage in our history worth informing and reminding us especially at this troubling time in the country development should be taught in schools thanking you George bless brother

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Yes, it is not sadly something that is "advertised" in our history classes taught in schools. Keep safe and stay strong, bro.

[@kiritibhattacharya2772]

Many many thanks for such a creative recollection of an incident which showed racism and imperial colonialism but with it defiance and total unity among the races - later to be torn by politics. Many wounds. Some still fresh. Great job. Thanks again for this memorable rendition.

[@petersenphillip678]

Great historical production. A teaching of the highest order!

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. Keep safe.

[@patriciakhan3998]

Important piece of history. Thanks, George.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Glad you liked it. Have a pleasant day.

[@Megamatthiesen]

Thanks for the song..a very sad story from the past..let us remember all them people and animals who lost there life in colonial history and misery. Peace out to family and friends to the lost ones 🌏❤️

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome, Sugarfoot. Peace to you too...don't work too hard!

[@derekplummer8970]

This man have any medal 🥇 of honor from Trinidad 🇹🇹

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ACB2K]

Need to do some research. Thank you❤🙏🏿

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome.

[@sheilamaharaj171]

What a delight - unheard story now told - creative and melodious story tellingb

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyes it. I guess it is not something the authorities wanted "advertised" in the history books. Have a pleasant day and keep safe.

[@SuperSnk1]

This is sadness, this is tears, this is pain, this is murder and massacre all because of their religious beliefs. Amongst those who felt the wrath of the white man that day were my ancestors my blood line so I grieve with them . I'm thankful to Brother George for this educational and informative part of our history for these murders and crimes against a peaceful people must never be forgotten.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Glad you appreciate it. You are right - a lot of people have been killed in the name of "god". Also by colonial powers suppressing people in colonies. Both of which are obviuos here.

[@johngreaves4074]

Never heard about that George, but I know now, thanks, learned something today,

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. We all learn something every day. Keep well.

[@asmahamidullah9571]

May Allah bless you Brother! This massacre must never be forgotten! 🤲🏽🇹🇹🤲🏽

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thankss. Glad you enjoyed it. Have a pleasant day and keep safe.

[@kandiblessed3929]

I have never heard of this before . The things they hid from us.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

I guess it is not something the authorities wanted "advertised" in the history books. Have a pleasant day.

[@debyn2331]

Wow I never knew but I feel there are other hidden past to come out these are the days of revealing.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

There are. But the "authorities" that inherited power from the colonial British rule are not interested in "rocking the boat" - risking that the general population understands that the oppression of colonial times still exist.

[@sebastianwahl8600]

Powerful

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Glad you liked it

[@sitaseepersad2882]

I never heard of this.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

I didn't hear of it either - until I started to dig into what the government calls the "Hosay Riots" and found out that it was not a riot at all, but a massacre. As I said in the song, it was (and still is) excuded from Trinidad history books. Both the former British Colonial Government and the post-independence governments don't want people to know how the police have been used to oppress the people.

[@advenjo]

Thanks very much for sharing this brilliant calypso that captures most vividly an account of our history where the perpetrators of a most dastardly crime escaped justice with impunity.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Up to now the "authorities" that inherited power from the colonial British rule are not interested in "rocking the boat" - risking that the general population understands that the oppression of colonial times still exist.

[@hannaneibish9448]

🌹🌹

[@deliafernandez3870]

You have educated me on this one.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Glad you liked it. Have a pleasant day.

[@rennatakarim786]

Very informative thanks

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. Glad you liked it. Have a nice day.

[@shaun_rambaran]

Same Captain Baker from the Kambule Riots?

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Yes. Same Captain Baker.

[@moreenamohammed-campey5148]

Obviously any gathering had to be stopped! It was covered up! So who let it out now?

[@TheKeithvidz]

Keeping their souls burning.

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

Thanks. Have a nice day and keep safe.

[@sepherinaallard7584]

WOW! First time hearing… THANKS FOR INFO. ONLY REMEMBERED THE JAMATT MUSLIMEEN UNFORTUNATE TERRIBLE AND SAD ATTACK BY THE NOW PASSED ABU 👴🏾 BARKA

[@calypsomusicgeorgerampersad]

You're welcome. I guess people don't know as it is not being taught in history classes in schools. have a pleasant day and keep safe.