Ouboutou Tegremante
Ouboutou Tegremante (killed 1626 , near Old Road Town ) was the chief of the Caribs (Kallinago) on St. Kitts when the explorer Thomas Warner arrived there in 1623 to found a colony. First he made peace with the English and Warner founded the English settlement of Old Road Town below his village. As the European population on St. Kitts grew, so did Tegremante's reservations. In 1626, after a secret meeting with the chiefs of the neighboring islands Waitikubuli ( Dominica ) and Oualie, the natives decided to attack the European settlements on the night of the next full moon. The plan was betrayed to the Europeans by the Igneri woman Barbe . She had only recently been brought to St. Kitts as a slave after the Kalianago raided an Arawak settlement. The French historian Jean Baptiste Du Tertre writes that she hated Kalinago and was in love with Warner.
The English and French allied and attacked the Caribs by night. The colonists killed around 100 or 120 Caribs that night in their beds and spared only the most beautiful women they wanted to keep as slaves (see also the description of the Kalinago genocide in 1626 ). Then they began to build fortifications on the island in order to be prepared against the expected invasion of the Caribs from other islands.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean Baptiste Du Tertre : Histoire Generale des Antilles ... , 2 vols. Paris: Jolly 1667, I: 5-6
- ↑ Du Tertre (1667), I: 6.
- ↑ Vincent Hubbard: A History of St. Kitts. Macmillan Caribbean 2002: 15-18. ISBN 9780333747605 .
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| SURNAME | Tegremante, Ouboutou |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chief of the Caribs on St. Christopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1626 |
| Place of death | at Old Road Town |