Dis a Fi Mi History Podcast: Explore Caribbean Ancestry & Culture

The 1790s marked a turning point in Caribbean history, as revolutionary ideas swept across the Atlantic world and transformed the lives of free and enslaved people throughout the Greater Caribbean. In this episode of the Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast, Professor Klooster explores how the French Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, Spanish colonial reforms, and British abolitionist debates inspired new hopes for freedom, equality, and citizenship.
Discover how revolutionary ideals spread through trans-imperial networks, with Curaçao serving as a critical hub connecting the Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas. Learn how sailors, merchants, migrants, and free people of color carried news, political ideas, and legal strategies across colonial borders, influencing resistance movements and shaping the revolutionary era.
Professor Klooster examines the legal petitions of free people of color, the role of Atlantic migration, and the impact of rumors, communication networks, and revolutionary language in fueling resistance from Saint-Domingue (Haiti) to the wider Caribbean. The conversation also explores the complexities of race, colorism, class, slavery, colonialism, and the long struggle for civil rights and equality in the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch Caribbean.
Whether you're interested in Caribbean genealogy, Atlantic history, the Haitian Revolution, abolition, colonial history, or the African Diaspora, this episode offers valuable insight into one of the most significant decades in world history and its lasting influence on the modern Caribbean.
Topics Covered
The French Revolution and its impact on the Caribbean
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Haitian Revolution and Saint-Domingue
Curaçao as a revolutionary crossroads
Free people of color and legal petitions
Slavery, emancipation, and abolition
British, French, Spanish, and Dutch colonial empires
Revolutionary ideas across the Atlantic World
Caribbean resistance and revolts
Race, class, and colorism in the colonial Caribbean
Caribbean genealogy and historical research
The African Diaspora and transatlantic networks
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BIO: 
Professor Wim Klooster is a distinguished historian specializing in the history of the Atlantic World, with expertise in the Caribbean, the Age of Revolutions, colonial Latin America, and the Dutch Atlantic. He is the Clark Professor of History at Clark University and is internationally recognized for his research on the interconnected histories of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Professor Klooster's scholarship explores the movement of people, ideas, and goods across the Atlantic, examining how revolutions, migration, trade, and colonialism shaped the modern world. His work has significantly advanced our understanding of the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Greater Caribbean, slavery, emancipation, and the complex relationships among the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch empires.
He is the author and editor of numerous acclaimed books and scholarly publications, including Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History, The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, and Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World. His research highlights the role of free people of color, enslaved communities, merchants, sailors, and revolutionary networks in shaping the Atlantic World during periods of profound political and social change.
 

How does Caribbean music preserve history, identity, and cultural memory? Can a song tell the story of a people as powerfully as a history book?
In this episode of Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast, host Wendy Aris welcomes Darren Shillingford for an engaging conversation about how Caribbean music serves as a living archive—preserving the history, traditions, resilience, and identity of Caribbean people across generations.
From the rhythms of steelpan and the storytelling tradition of calypso to Caribbean folk music, classical Caribbean composers, and contemporary musical fusion, Darren explores how music has documented the experiences of the Caribbean diaspora, celebrated cultural heritage, and challenged systems of colonialism and inequality.
The discussion highlights the origins of the steelpan in Trinidad and Tobago, the role of calypso as oral history and social commentary, and the importance of preserving traditional songs that connect communities to their ancestors. Darren also shares insights into music education, the value of community performance, and how blending traditional and contemporary musical styles ensures Caribbean culture continues to thrive.
Whether you're passionate about Caribbean history, music history, genealogy, Black history, cultural heritage, or the African diaspora, this episode demonstrates that every melody, lyric, and rhythm carries a story worth preserving.
In This Episode
🎵 How Caribbean music preserves history and cultural identity🥁 The origins and global influence of the steelpan🎤 Calypso as oral history, resistance, and social commentary🎼 Caribbean folk songs and classical composers🌍 Music, migration, and the Caribbean diaspora📚 The importance of music education and cultural preservation🤝 Building community through music and performance🎶 Why musical traditions matter for future generations
Music is far more than entertainment—it is a historical record, a form of resistance, and a powerful expression of identity. Darren reminds us that preserving Caribbean music means preserving the stories, struggles, and triumphs of the people who created it.
 
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Darren Shillingford is a Trinidad and Tobago–born musician, educator, conductor, and cultural advocate dedicated to preserving and celebrating Caribbean musical traditions. With a career spanning performance, teaching, and community engagement, he explores the rich history of steelpan, calypso, folk music, and classical Caribbean composers. His work highlights music as a living archive that connects generations, preserves cultural identity, and tells the stories of the Caribbean and its diaspora.
 
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How did a small island in the English Channel become deeply connected to the Caribbean through the salt cod trade? What role did Jersey merchants play in the transatlantic economy, and how did salt cod become a staple food throughout the Caribbean?
In this episode of Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast, host Wendy Aris welcomes photographer, researcher, and maritime historian Martin Toft to discuss his groundbreaking research project, Entrepôt, and his Dispatch 1: Caribbean fieldwork exploring the historical connections between Jersey, Canada, and the Caribbean through the salt cod trade.
Martin shares how years of archival research and travel across Saint Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, and Grenada have uncovered the complex merchant networks that linked the Channel Island of Jersey to plantation economies in the Caribbean. At the center of the story is merchant Charles Robin, whose cod trading empire connected the fisheries of Atlantic Canada with Caribbean plantations, where salted cod became an essential food source for enslaved Africans and later for generations of Caribbean families.
Together, Wendy and Martin examine how maritime history, family history, colonial archives, and photographic storytelling reveal the economic systems that sustained slavery and shaped the modern Atlantic World. They discuss the relationships between merchants, plantation owners, shipping agents, and colonial governments, while exploring how historical photographs, archival documents, and field research can uncover forgotten connections between Europe and the Caribbean.
The conversation also explores the cultural legacy of saltfish—a food that remains central to Caribbean cuisine today. From Jamaica's national dish of ackee and saltfish to traditional recipes throughout the region, Martin explains how a commodity born from global trade, colonialism, and forced labor became woven into Caribbean identity and culinary heritage.
Whether you're interested in Caribbean history, genealogy, maritime history, Atlantic World studies, food history, slavery, or archival research, this episode uncovers a fascinating story of commerce, migration, and cultural resilience that continues to shape the Caribbean today.
In This Episode
How Jersey became a major player in the Atlantic salt cod trade
Charles Robin and the merchant networks connecting Canada and the Caribbean
Why salt cod became a staple food throughout the Caribbean
The relationship between commerce, slavery, and plantation economies
Using archives, photography, and fieldwork to uncover hidden histories
Family connections across the Atlantic World
The enduring legacy of saltfish in Caribbean culture and cuisine
Why maritime history is essential to understanding Caribbean identity
If you enjoy episodes about Caribbean genealogy, Black history, food history, Atlantic history, colonial trade, and the untold stories behind everyday traditions, this conversation offers a remarkable new perspective on one of the Caribbean's most recognizable foods.
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Martin Toft is a photographer, researcher, and visual storyteller whose work explores the intersections of history, memory, landscape, and identity. Through his long-term project Entrepôt, he investigates the historical links between Jersey, Atlantic Canada, and the Caribbean, uncovering the maritime trade networks that shaped the Atlantic World. Combining archival research, photography, and fieldwork, his work reveals the enduring legacies of commerce, colonialism, and migration on communities across the Atlantic.
 
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How can food tell the story of a people? What can Caribbean cuisine reveal about migration, colonialism, family history, and identity across the diaspora?
In this episode of Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast, host Wendy Aris sits down with Hema Ramsingh of The Moreish Podcast for a rich conversation about Caribbean food culture, storytelling, genealogy, and the lasting legacies of colonialism.
Together, they explore how traditional dishes, family recipes, and everyday meals carry memories of migration, resistance, survival, and cultural exchange throughout the Caribbean diaspora. Hema shares the origins of The Moreish Podcast, the realities of independent podcast production, and why creating space for diverse Caribbean voices is essential to understanding the region’s complex history.
The conversation also examines how food connects generations, helps uncover hidden family histories, and opens discussions about race, identity, ancestry, and belonging. Wendy and Hema reflect on the importance of speaking with elders, questioning historical narratives, and recognizing the varied experiences that exist across Caribbean communities while working toward greater understanding and solidarity.
 
In This Episode
How food preserves Caribbean history and culture
The origins of The Moreish Podcast
Independent podcasting and storytelling
Caribbean identity and the legacy of colonialism
Genealogy, family history, and oral traditions
Why diverse perspectives matter in Caribbean conversations
Practical ways to document family stories and heritage
Building solidarity across the Caribbean diaspora
 
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This episode is perfect for anyone interested in Caribbean genealogy, Black history, Caribbean food history, oral history, cultural heritage, and diaspora studies. It offers both historical insight and practical advice for preserving family stories before they disappear.
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Hema Ramsingh is a Canadian food and travel content creator, podcast host, and storyteller exploring Caribbean foodways, culture, and identity through  her podcast The Moreish Podcast. Born in Canada to a Trinidadian family, she shares personal narratives, travel experiences, and culinary history that connect the Caribbean diaspora across generations. Her work highlights food as a gateway to memory, migration, and cultural heritage, blending storytelling, history, and lived experience across the Caribbean and beyond.
 
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How did colonial laws shape slavery, race, and justice in the Caribbean—and why do their legacies still matter today?
In this thought-provoking episode of Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast, host Wendy Aris explores the enduring impact of colonial law, slavery, and the legal systems that established and maintained racial inequality throughout the Caribbean and the African diaspora.
Through historical analysis and engaging conversation, this episode examines how colonial governments used legislation to legitimize enslavement, enforce racial hierarchies, control labor, regulate land ownership, expand economic exploitation, and shape policing and systems of punishment. These legal structures not only transformed Caribbean societies but also influenced governance, justice, and social inequality across the Atlantic World.
The discussion also explores the lasting effects of colonial legal systems on faith, community, human rights, and social justice, while encouraging listeners to consider how understanding this history is essential to conversations about decolonization, reparations, restorative justice, and public policy today.
Whether you're interested in Caribbean history, Black history, African diaspora studies, genealogy, colonialism, or legal history, this episode provides valuable insight into how the past continues to shape the present.
In This Episode
✔️ How colonial laws institutionalized slavery in the Caribbean✔️ The legal foundations of racial inequality and segregation✔️ Land ownership, labor laws, and economic exploitation✔️ Colonial policing and systems of punishment✔️ Faith, resistance, and community under colonial rule✔️ The lasting impact of colonial legal systems on Caribbean societies✔️ Decolonization, restorative justice, and historical accountability
This episode is essential listening for historians, genealogists, legal scholars, students, educators, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the historical foundations of race, justice, and inequality in the Caribbean and across the African diaspora.
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Neena Albarus is a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from Jamaica, her research examines structural violence, community development, public health, and social policy across Jamaica and the Caribbean. Her work focuses on advancing social justice through research, with interests including environmental justice, mental health, and the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica.
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What happens when our memories, photographs, documents, and digital lives slowly disappear? How can we ensure that future generations inherit not just our records, but our stories?
In this episode of Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast, host Wendy Aris sits down with historian Tom Mullaney to discuss his thought-provoking book, How We Disappear, and the many ways history can be lost—not only through catastrophic events but through the gradual erosion of personal records, family archives, and digital information.
Together, they explore how family photographs, genealogical records, digital files, government documents, and everyday information shape our understanding of identity, memory, and history. The conversation examines how archives preserve our collective past while also revealing how systems of naming, classification, technology, and recordkeeping can unintentionally erase individuals, families, and communities from history.
Whether you're researching your family tree, preserving oral histories, organizing digital photographs, or simply wondering how to protect your family's legacy, this episode offers valuable insights into genealogy, archival preservation, and digital heritage.
In This Episode
✔️ Why people and histories disappear over time✔️ The importance of preserving family photographs and documents✔️ Digital archives and protecting your online legacy✔️ How archives shape historical memory✔️ Naming, classification, and the power of recordkeeping✔️ Genealogy and preserving family history for future generations✔️ Practical strategies for safeguarding your personal and family archives
If you're passionate about genealogy, family history, archives, historical research, digital preservation, or public history, this episode provides practical advice and a fresh perspective on protecting the stories that matter most.
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Thomas S. Mullaney is a historian, author, and Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University. His research explores the intersection of history, technology, archives, and information systems. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including How We Disappear, which examines how people, memories, and everyday records gradually vanish over time. His work challenges us to rethink preservation, digital memory, and the ways history is recorded and remembered.
 
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What can archives tell us about the lives of enslaved Africans—and what have they left unsaid?
In this compelling episode of Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast, host Wendy Aris welcomes Associate Professor Kathrine Gerbner to discuss her groundbreaking new book, Archival Irruptions. Together, they explore how Caribbean archives, missionary records, and colonial documents both reveal and conceal the religious lives, resilience, and agency of enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
The conversation examines the Moravian Church's mission in Jamaica, the criminalization of Obeah (Obia) following Tacky's Revolt of 1760, and the complex relationship between Christianity, African spiritual traditions, healing practices, and resistance. Professor Gerbner demonstrates how historians can read against the grain of colonial archives to uncover the voices and experiences that were intentionally marginalized or omitted from the historical record.
Discover how Moravian missionaries documented baptism, healing, and spiritual practices, while also navigating the tensions between African religious traditions and colonial authority. This episode offers fresh perspectives on Caribbean history, African diaspora history, genealogy, archival research, and the lasting impact of these eighteenth-century debates on contemporary understandings of African-derived religions throughout the Caribbean.
Whether you're passionate about Caribbean genealogy, Black history, Atlantic World history, Obeah, the Moravian Church, or historical research, this conversation will transform the way you think about archives and the stories they preserve—and the ones they silence.
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✔️ Archival Irruptions and what it means to "read against the archive"✔️ The Moravian Church's role in colonial Jamaica✔️ Obeah (Obia), African spirituality, and colonial law✔️ Tacky's Revolt and its historical significance✔️ Recovering the voices of enslaved Africans through archival research✔️ Caribbean genealogy and the importance of historical records✔️ How the past continues to shape conversations about religion, identity, and cultural heritage today
 
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Associate Professor Katharine Gerbner is a historian of religion, race, slavery, and the Atlantic World at the University of Minnesota, where she also serves as Director of Religious Studies. She is the author of Christian Slavery and Archival Irruptions, which examines the criminalization of Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Her research uncovers marginalized voices through innovative archival methods, reshaping our understanding of Caribbean and African diaspora history.
 
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In this episode Dr. Amanda T. Perry discusses her research on how early nineteenth-century Haiti used the language of indigeneity to define nationhood after the revolution. The conversation explores how formerly enslaved Africans, Taíno memory, and political claims to territory shaped the new state's identity and citizenship.
Topics include the Declaration of Independence, racial and social divisions, exclusions of French colonists, later debates about Taíno presence, and the long-term implications for Caribbean ideas of belonging and nationhood.
 
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Amanda T. Perry is a writer, scholar, educator, and literary critic based in Montréal, Québec. She teaches at both Champlain College Saint-Lambert and Concordia University, specializing in Caribbean literature, cultural studies, and postcolonial history. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, where her research focused on Caribbean literature in English, French, and Spanish.
Her scholarship explores Caribbean identity, race, migration, sovereignty, and historical memory. She has published in leading journals, including Small Axe, The Global South, and the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and her research examines topics ranging from Haitian indigenism and abolition debates to the cultural impact of the Cuban Revolution across the Caribbean.
Professor Perry is the author of the influential article Becoming Indigenous in Haiti: From Dessalines to La Revue Indigène, which explores how Haitians have used the concept of indigeneity to define national identity, sovereignty, and belonging from the Haitian Revolution through the twentieth century. Her work challenges conventional understandings of Caribbean identity by examining the intersections of African ancestry, Indigenous memory, and postcolonial nation-building.
Beyond academia, Perry is a contributing editor with the Literary Review of Canada and has written for publications including The Walrus and The Globe and Mail. Her work is distinguished by its multilingual and interdisciplinary approach, bringing together history, literature, culture, and politics to deepen our understanding of the Caribbean and its diasporas.
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In this episode we speak with Paula Ogun Hector, creator of Tapestry of Black Britons, about uncovering and preserving the long, diverse history of people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain. We explore how art, community storytelling and archival research reveal contributions stretching from Roman Britain to the present.
Through tapestry, workshops and exhibitions Paula shows how reclaiming these stories builds belonging, challenges myths about British history, and connects family and national memory across generations.
 
BIO:
Paula Ogun Hector is a British cultural producer, artist, educator, and founder and Creative Director of Tapestry of Black Britons, a large-scale, touring “living tapestry” project that reimagines British history through the lens of African and Caribbean contributions.
She created the project to address gaps in mainstream historical narratives by highlighting over 1,500 years of Black presence in Britain—from Roman Britain through to the present day. The work combines traditional textile methods, digital design, and community collaboration, resulting in woven and embroidered panels that are continuously developed with artists, schools, and local communities across the UK.
Ogun Hector has over 20 years of experience working in inclusive storytelling and cultural production. Her earlier career includes work in television and media such as BBC programming (Black Britain, When Black Became Beautiful), alongside roles in public relations and cultural organisations including the Commission for Racial Equality, Centrepoint, and the BFI’s Black World Season.
She is also an educator who has developed learning environments and creative programmes, including work supporting neurodiverse young people and delivering workshops in schools across the UK. Her practice focuses on creative wellbeing, education, and expanding opportunities for young people through arts engagement.
Her work is influenced by thinkers and cultural theorists such as Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, and curator Okwui Enwezor, particularly in relation to ideas about diaspora, identity, and cultural memory.
Through Tapestry of Black Britons, she continues to develop a national touring project that combines art, history, and community participation, with exhibitions across major UK venues and an expanding educational programme that invites the public to contribute to a more inclusive understanding of British history.
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In this episode of Dis a Fi Mi History Podcast, host Wendy Aris interviews travel journalist and TV host Natalie Preddie to explore Caribbean history beyond the typical resort experience. They delve into the rich heritage and family genealogy of the islands, uncovering stories shaped by colonialism and community resilience. Explore how community-led tourism offers travelers a meaningful connection to Caribbean culture and history.
This conversation highlights sustainable travel, the positive local economic impact, and why understanding historical legacies is essential for connecting deeply with the Caribbean's people and places.
BIO
Natalie Preddie is of mixed race, award-winning Canadian travel journalist, author and BIPOC advocate with bylines in international publications including Globe & Mail, Travel & Leisure and The Washington Post. I have co-authored two travel books: Dance Adventures & Lonely Planet's Epic Runs of North America. I share travel tips with national television audiences on and am the host of NEW travel series, GET LOST with Natalie Preddie. I am the mother of three beautiful little boys who love to explore the world with me.
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