Kalinago Genocide 1626

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The Kalinago Genocide of 1626 (English: Kalinago Genocide of 1626 ) was the massacre (genocidal massacre) of about 2000 Caribs by English and French settlers.

Events

Chief Tegremond was troubled by the growing number of English and French settlers who made their way to St. Kitts . This led to confrontations and thereupon, according to tradition, he forged the plan to wipe out the settlers with the support of a group of island Caribs. This plot was betrayed by a woman, "Barbe", to Thomas Warner and Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc . Then the English and French settlers came up with a plan. They invited the Caribs to a party where they got drunk. When the Caribs returned to their villages, 120 were killed in their sleep, including Chief Tegremond. The following day, the remaining 2,000 to 4,000 Caribs were driven to the Bloody Point and Bloody River area , where more than 2,000 were massacred and 100 settlers lost their lives. A Frenchman went mad after being hit by a poisoned arrow with the poison from the Manchinel tree . The surviving Caribs fled, but in 1640 those who had not yet been enslaved were deported to Dominica .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre , Histoire Generale des Antilles ... , 2 vols. Paris: Jolly, 1667, I: 5-6
  2. ↑ Vincent Hubbard: A History of St. Kitts. Macmillan Caribbean 2002: 17-18. ISBN 9780333747605 [1]

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Coordinates: 17 ° 18 ′ 11.2 "  N , 62 ° 46 ′ 44.2"  W.