Dis a fi mi History Podcast
This is a podcast about Caribbean History and a good resource for individuals researching their family history Host: Wendy Aris
Episodes

Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
In this episode I speak with Dr Dexter Gabriel about Emancipation & Apprenticeship System in British Caribbean .
Article:
https://www.readex.com/readex-report/issues/volume-14-issue-1/envisaging-freedom-eve-emancipation-british-caribbean-1833
Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Jubilees-Experiment-Abolitionism-Slaveries-Emancipation/dp/1108845509
Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 2016
Research Specialities: Black Atlantic, Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, Post-emancipation Societies, and Slavery in Popular Culture
Dr. Dexter Gabriel earned his B.A. in history from Texas State University-San Marcos, an M.A. in history also from Texas State University-San Marcos, and his Ph.D. in history from Stony Brook University-New York. His research interests include the history of bondage, resistance, and freedom in the Black Atlantic, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to slavery within popular culture and media. His current research explores British Emancipation in the Anglo-Caribbean and its impact on abolitionist strategies in nineteenth-century North America. His work has been translated into the social arena through panel discussions, lectures, articles, and interviews as diverse as the Federal Reserve Bank of Virginia to Voice of America, BBC America, and elsewhere.
He is jointly-appointed faculty with the History Department.
Follow:Twitter: @eppinghallInstagram: @berkshirehalleppingpress
Workbookhttps://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/wendy-aris/genealogy-workbook/paperback/product-88wyv4.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Theme Music"Africa" is modern ethnic track with fresh chords, African vocal, orchestra.
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
#history #jamaicanhistory #jamaicapodcast #History #BritishAtlanticHistory #CaribbeanHistory #SlaveHistroy #JamaicaHistory

Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Lanre Tunj-Ajayi - Sickle Cell Anemia
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
In this episode I speak with the CEO Lanre Tunji-Ajayi of the Sickle Cell Anemia Association of Ontario about the heredity condition.
Website: https://sicklecellanemia.ca/
October 2023 Marathon: https://raceroster.com/events/2023/65909/2023-tcs-toronto-waterfront-marathon/fundraising-organization/46852
Blood Partner: https://sicklecellanemia.ca/be-our-blood-partner

Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Verona Spence-Adofo - Anansi Stories - The Trickster
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Verona Spence-Adofo is the co-founder of Ancestral Voices, an educational initiative spanning over a decade with the sole purpose of documenting and disseminating research-based knowledge about African sacred cosmologies, their spiritual philosophies and practices.
Website: https://ancestralvoices.co.uk/
Film: https://filmfreeway.com/av2
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralVoicesFilms
Article Link: https://folklorethursday.com/regional-folklore/anansi-the-spider-trickster-or-teacher/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ancestral_voices
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Rituals-Living-Vusamazulu-Credo-Mutwa/dp/B07V3P8LYF
YouTube Episode: https://youtu.be/bvpXzC3KKsg

Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Dr Victoria Barnett-Woods - Bequeathed Unto My Daughter..Slaves.......
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
In this episode I will be speaking with Victoria Barnett-Woods who is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Loyola University Maryland in the Humanities Department. Where she specializes in literature of the long eighteenth century. Currently is the Associate Director for student programming & experimental learning at the Starr Centre Washington College.
Book Link:
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Victoria-Barnett-Woods-ebook/dp/B086XK81FY?ref_=ast_author_mpb
Article Link:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-0208.12803
Current Research:
Manuscript in Progress: Reading the West Indies: Empire, Slavery, and the Rise of the Novel.
Contact
Twitter @VictoriaBWs

Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
In this episode I speak with Dr. Justine K Collins about the Barbados Slave Code 1660's. Dr Justine K Collins is a Legal Historian and a Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer at SOAS University of London, Faculty of Law.
BIO:
She is a legal historian and specialises in the intersection of law and society particularly within colonial slavery laws of the Atlantic World. She completed her doctoral studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany.
Her thesis engaged legal comparative analysis to trace the origins and influences of the British Caribbean slavery codes. This thesis research - Tracing British West Indian Slavery: An Analysis of Legal Transplants - was published by Routledge in 2021.
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13200968.2021.1933801?journalCode=rfem20
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ObinolIXOr0
Book:
Link: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Justine-K-Collins/dp/1032122994
Support the channel
Buy me a coffee: Ko-fi.com/disafimihistory
Follow:
Twitter: @eppinghall
Instagram: @berkshirehalleppingpress
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WlDABsVBBYSPH8dUdD1lQ
Workbook
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/wendy-aris/genealogy-workbook/paperback/product-88wyv4.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Theme Music
"Africa" is modern ethnic track with fresh chords, African vocal, orchestra.
License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zQefSvCUk
#history #jamaicanhistory #jamaicapodcast #History #BritishAtlanticHistory #Slavecode #CaribbeanHistory #SlaveHistroy #JamaicaHistory

Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Dr Justine K Collins - Barbados Slave Code 1660’s
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
In this episode I speak with Dr. Justine K Collins about the Barbados Slave Code 1660's. Dr Justine K Collins Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer at SOAS University of London, Faculty of Law.
Bio:
BIO:
She is a legal historian and specialises in the intersection of law and society particularly within colonial slavery laws of the Atlantic World. She completed her doctoral studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany.
Her thesis engaged legal comparative analysis to trace the origins and influences of the British Caribbean slavery codes. This thesis research - Tracing British West Indian Slavery: An Analysis of Legal Transplants - was published by Routledge in 2021.
Book:
Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Justine-K-Collins/dp/1032122994
Support the channel
Buy me a coffee: Ko-fi.com/disafimihistory
Follow:
Twitter: @eppinghall
Instagram: @berkshirehalleppingpress
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WlDABsVBBYSPH8dUdD1lQ
Workbook
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/wendy-aris/genealogy-workbook/paperback/product-88wyv4.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Theme Music
"Africa" is modern ethnic track with fresh chords, African vocal, orchestra.
License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zQefSvCUk
#history #jamaicanhistory #jamaicapodcast #History #BritishAtlanticHistory #Slavecode #CaribbeanHistory #SlaveHistroy #JamaicaHistory

Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Dr David B Ryden -Manumission in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
In this episode I speak with David Beck Ryden (Associate Professor of History, University of Houston - Downtown) has degrees in Economics and History from Connecticut College (BA), the University of Delaware's College of Business and Economics (MA), and the University of Minnesota's Department of History (Ph.D.). He is the author of several articles on British American slave societies for Slavery and Abolition, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Social Science History. He is also editor of The Promoters of the Slave Trade, a collection of pro-slavery pamphlets produced by West Indian planters during the age of abolition. The Economic History Association selected Ryden's dissertation as a finalist for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize. He was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of American Studies and History at Brunel University in London. Book: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/david-beck-ryden/1564268/in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica Article Link: https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/92/3-4/article-p211_1.xml?language=en Endangered Archives Programme Link: https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP148-3-1/search Website: https://quanthistory.wordpress.com/about/ Support the channel Buy me a coffee: Ko-fi.com/disafimihistory Follow: Twitter: @eppinghall Instagram: @berkshirehalleppingpress Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WlDABsVBBYSPH8dUdD1lQ Workbook https://www.amazon.com/Genealogy-Workbook-Family-History-Research/dp/B09NRHG3M3/ Theme Music "Africa" is modern ethnic track with fresh chords, African vocal, orchestra. License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zQefSvCUk #history #jamaicanhistory #jamaicapodcast #History #BritishAtlanticHistory #Manumissions #CaribbeanHistory #SlaveHistroy #JamaicaHistory

Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Robin R Foster - My Best Genealogy Tips Finding Formerly Enslaved Ancestors
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
In this episode I talk with Robin R Foster in regards to her most recent book My Best Genealogy Tips: Finding Formerly Enslaved Ancestors. Bio: Robin dedicated to helping you past your research challenges in finding resources to identify your ancestors. I loved helping others while volunteering at FamilySearch, and I am excited to help anyone who needs assistance. Former Family History Center Director at Greenwood South Carolina Family History Center Founder of Genealogy Just Ask PLUS Website: https://www.genealogyjustask.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GenealogyJustAsk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genealogyjustask/?hl=en Twitter:@genelogyjustask Purchase Book Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/My-Best-Genealogy-Tips-Ancestors/dp/B0B9238BGQ Contact: Twitter: @eppinghall Email: disafimihistorypodcast@gmail.com Genealogy Workbook: Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Genealogy-Workbook-Family-History-Research/dp/B09NRHG3M3/ #genealogy #blackhistory #slavehistory

Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Paul Crooks - Slave Record Jamaica -
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Paul Crooks is an author, genealogist and speaker. Mr. Crooks is a specialist in African Caribbean genealogy and speaker. He spent over 13 years searching public records for his West African ancestors enslaved in Jamaica during the period of transatlantic enslavement Century. By 1998 he was acclaimed as the first person of African Caribbean descent to trace his roots. Website: https://paulcrooks.info/ Books - Amazon Link https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Crooks/e/B001K81MDU? Course Offerings: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/black-history-speaker-paul-crooks-18089386487 Contact Twitter: @history_speaker Instagram:@ ancestrytalks Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast Contact: Twitter: @eppinghall Email: disafimihistorypodcast@gmail.com Genealogy Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/Genealogy-Workbook-Family-History-Research/dp/B09NRHG3M3/ #slaverecords #podcast #jamaicanhistory

Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Carlston Walters - Caribbean Family History Group - Part 2
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
In todays episode I will be speaking with Carlston Walters of Caribbean Family History. This group assist family history researchers with overcoming their obstacles in researching their roots. Contact: Email: cfhg.sol.birm@gmail.com Website:http://www.caribbeanfamilyhistorygroup.org/ Contact: Twitter: @eppinghall Email: disafimihistorypodcast@gmail.com Genealogy Workbook: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/wendy-aris/genealogy-workbook/paperback/product-88wyv4.html?page=1&pageSize=4 https://www.amazon.com/Genealogy-Workbook-Family-History-Research/dp/B09NRHG3M3/ #podcast #caribbeanhistory #familyhistory

Dis A Fi Mi History Podcast
This podcast is about genealogic researching your Caribbean family history. There is a heavy concentration on the History of the Caribbean in which guest will be part of the podcast to discuss the various topics and themes. This will allow the listener to be able to have a broader viewpoint on how to approach their family history.
The title of the podcast Dis A Fi Mi History means in English This is My History.