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1881-4: Canboulay Riots

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The history of the attempt by colonial police to suppress abolition commemorations by the islands freed slaves and their resistance.

Captain Baker had sworn to wipe out Canboulay for good and he, with a contingent of policemen, had made a frontal attack on Canboulay masqueraders in those historic Canboulay riots in Port of Spain at Carnival 1881.
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