Montserrat
Montserrat is a Caribbean island and a British Overseas Territory. Its governor is Deborah Barnes-Jones. Officially, the capital is Plymouth, but the government has moved to Brades after Chances Peak erupted, destroying Plymouth in 1995.
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Before the island was called Montserrat, Kalinago and Taíno people had lived in the region for a long time. They knew it as Alliouagana.[1]
Montserrat was colonised mostly by Irish Catholics.[2] They brought many black slaves to the island and forced them to work on sugar plantations.[3] The work the slaves made many plantations grow wealthy. When slavery was made illegal in the 1830s, the British Empire paid all the slave owners.[4]
Montserrat Media
The United Kingdom's national anthem "God Save the King", performed by the U.S. Navy Band instrumentally circa the early 2000s.
A view of half of the coastline of Little Bay, and a glimpse of Carrs Bay, taken from partway up the headland between Little Bay and Rendezvous Bay, 2012
Map of Montserrat (top) and Plymouth (bottom) in 1869
Barquentine 'Hilda' loading lime juice
ParishesSt. Peter (red)St. Georges (green)St. Anthony (cyan)Plymouth (◾)
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Eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on 22 September 1997
Plymouth City (former capital and major port of Montserrat) on 12 July 1997, after pyroclastic flows burned much of what was not covered in ash
False-colour time-lapse images of the Soufrière Hills volcanic dome collapse in 2010, from NASA
Devastated Plymouth City and volcano (2003)
References
- ↑ "Montserrat - History". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ Hogan, Liam; McAtackney, Laura; Reilly, Matthew C. (2016-02-29). "The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?". History Ireland. Archived from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ Ryzewski, Krysta; Cherry, John F. (2015). "Struggles of a Sugar Society: Surveying Plantation-Era Montserrat, 1650–1850". International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 19 (2): 356–383. doi:10.1007/s10761-015-0292-7. ISSN 1092-7697. JSTOR 24572794. S2CID 144561731.
- ↑ "Legacies of British Slave-ownership". UCL Department of History. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
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