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Jamaica: In search of Thomas Alexander Bennett
On my first day – with the task of looking for a needle in a hay stack; I didn’t know which Parish to look for – I was advised that the Baptism records was the place to look, however for some reason the records for St Elizabeth were not there.
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Jamaica: the unexpected language barrier of Jamaican Patois
After travelling through Lisbon and Cape Verde and getting by with practically no language skills in Portuguese, I thought I'd be fine in Jamaica as the official language is English. Sometimes the Jamaican patois threw me.
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Abolition of Slave trade and ownership
A brief history of when the trade and ownership of slave labour became illegal around the world.
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A date with history
If I could go anywhere in the world, where would I go? That led me to start planning a trip to Cape Verde and Jamaica.
