The Village Called Goat Hill: Life in a Small Village on a Small Island

During the post-emancipation through to the 21st century, the descendants of slaves had established on the small Grenadine island of Carriacou, the village of Goat Hill on marginal lands. These lands had been over-cultivated to produce indigo, sugarcane and cotton primarily for the benefit of Europeans. The plantation owners had gone, forced to give up their parasitic life on the backs of Goat Hillians' ancestors. While the people who now occupied the small village were all poor in material...