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August -September, 2010 A Project of the Trinidad and Tobago Memory of the World Committee Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers of Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917 National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago The Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers comprise the most detailed records of the indentureship system, the colonial powers and its Estate Register 10 consequences for the human Collections inscribed on rights of the labourers. the international Memory of the World Register They constitute a body of documentation which 1997 details personal The Derek Walcott Collection information of a mass of people who were 1999 contracted as cheap The Eric Williams Collection indentured labourers. 2005 This information is the Girl's emigration pass for The C.L.R. James Collection only source for genealogy Ship Bann (1886). 2009 The Registry of Slaves of search for the the British Caribbean 1817-1834 descendants of girmityas. The records date from 1832-1962 and can be Collections inscribed on the found in Fiji (1879-1962), Trinidad and Tobago Guyana (1838-1917), Memory of the World Register Suriname (1853-1946) General Register (1852). and Trinidad and Tobago 2010 (1845-1917). Records of the ?The Derek Walcott Collection Indian Indentured ?The Eric Williams Collection Labourers were ?The C.L.R. James Collection inscribed on the Trinidad and Tobago ? Slave Registers for Trinidad and Tobago Memory of the ?The Donald ‘Jackie’ Hinkson Collection World Register in 2010 and have been ?The Constantine Collection nominated for ?The Carlisle Chang Collection inclusion in the ?The Digital Pan Archive international Register of Returning Immigrants. Memory of the ? Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers World Register in 2011. of Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917 *East Indian Settlers at Cedar Hill Estate (1889). *Photos courtesy Geoffrey MacLean and *East Indian Huts. Angelo Bissessarsingh. The Digital Pan Archive The Derek Walcott Aranjuez, Trinidad Collection Main Library, University of the Dr. Kim Johnson, a Senior West Indies, St. Augustine Campus Research Fellow at the University of Trinidad and Derek Walcott was born, in 1930 Tobago (UTT) is one of the in Castries, St. Lucia but spent a world's leading researchers on number of years living and steelband history. In the 1990s working in Trinidad and Tobago. his long-standing “Pan In 1959, he founded the Little Pioneers” newspaper series Carib Theatre Workshop which introduced the public to the later became the Trinidad Dr. Kim Johnson men and women who created Derek Walcott Nobel Laureate Theatre Workshop (TTW) and in pan between the 1940s-1950s. 1992 he became the second person from the Caribbean to His new project, the receive a Nobel Prize. DIGITAL PAN ARCHIVE, supported by Pan Trinbago Walcott has made sterling and The Carnival Institute, contributions to the aims to gather and development of Caribbean preserve the visual and literature, publishing oral record of the many poems, essays, plays and dimensions of the literary reviews. Through steelband movement. It his work, Walcott set out includes all information on to create a literature steelbands and panmen, truthful to West Indian Scene from “Little Prince” including the small and life. He has also produced painted by Derek Walcott. country bands. It covers Prime Minister Dr. Eric many paintings and Williams, Rudolph Charles sketches. (manager, Desperadoes Steel The Derek Walcott collection covers Orchestra) and Wallace Austin his time in Trinidad and Tobago (tuner) in the Laventille and represents the history of the Community Centre, ca. 1977. Trinidad Theatre Workshop, much Photo courtesy Government of his Information Service Photo Unit. poetry and prose up to their mas, foreign trips, and 1981 as well concerts with other musicians, as reviews flyers for shows, record covers of his work and panyards. in the 1990s. This The photo features Clifford 'Rope' Alfred archive is prominent actors, Albert steel pan tuning 2009. also rich Laveau and Errol Jones, Photo courtesy Kats Imai. who performed in with Derek Walcott's photo- productions. The Project is expected to graphic produce a 250-page material. definitive book on pan in a coffee-table format called Derek Walcott The Derek Walcott Collection was ‘The Illustrated Book of Pan’. Laventille All Girls. Photo produced a set of inscribed on the international courtesy Cynthia Yuille. paintings for the play Memory of the World Register in “Haytian Earth.” The Digital Pan Archive was 1997 and on the inscribed on the Trinidad and Trinidad and Tobago Tobago Memory Memory of the of the World World Register in Register in 2010. Clifford Alfred's steelpan Tuning 2010. “O Babylon!” A play Instruments. by Derek Walcott. The Eric Williams The Carlisle Chang Collection Collection Main Library, University of the West Main Library, University of the Indies, St. Augustine Campus West Indies, St. Augustine Campus Dr Eric Eustace Williams, eminent historian, statesman and scholar, Born to parents of Chinese led Trinidad and Tobago from descent in San Juan, Trinidad in colonialism into a short-lived West 1921, Carlisle Fenwick Chang Indies Federation, then spent most of his life as an Independence in 1962 and finally artist. His first job was as a to the status of Republic in 1976. Carlisle Chang photographer working out of Dr. Eric Williams He was Premier/Prime Minister Trinidad and Tobago and later operating a photo studio in of Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica. from 1956-1981. As a leader in the arts, Chang A graduate of Queens' pioneered the use of vinylite Royal College and Oxford or plastic paints in Trinidad University, he authored and Tobago. His collection several historical works, the includes a brilliant array of most notable of which, costume designs he produced The First Cabinet with the for carnival bands from 1964 Capitalism and Slavery, Governor General of continues to generate Trinidad and Tobago. to 1985. scholarly debates more than fifty years after its publication. The collection spanning 1948- 2001 is of national significance The Eric Williams Collection because it captures the comprises the research Photograph of a Doll library and archives of the created by Carlisle Chang, late Dr. Eric Williams. The undated. material depicts various aspects of Dr. Williams' life Diary of Dr. Williams and his contribution to diversity of this multi talented showing his last entry, dated Trinidad and Tobago, the artist and how his activities March 22nd, 1981. He died contributed to the creation of on March 29th 1981. cultural traditions and history. Caribbean Region and the world. The Archives in the Eric Williams Collection consist of a variety of “We Chinee” (1975) Carnival costume design for the band “We materials: correspondence; Kinda People” which won Band manuscripts of published A section of the museum in of the Year. and unpublished works, honour of Dr. Eric Williams. documents and reports; a miscellany of reports including publications relating to the birth of the People's National Movement. The Eric Williams Collection “Japan”, (circa 1982). was inscribed on the Carnival Costume design. international Memory of the World Register in 1999 and on The Carlisle Chang Collection the Trinidad and Tobago was inscribed on the Trinidad Memory of the World Register and Tobago Memory of the in 2010. World Register in 2010. “Capitalism and Slavery” written by Dr. Eric Williams has been “Javanese Prince” (1973). Carnival costume design with fabric translated into many languages. swatches for the band “East of Java”. The Constantine The C.L.R. James Collection Collection Heritage Library, National Library Main Library, University of the West and Information System Authority Indies, St. Augustine Campus Learie Nicholas Constantine was Cyril Lionel Robert (C.L.R.) James born in Trinidad in 1901, into a (1901-1989) was born in Trinidad renowned cricketing family. By and Tobago, but spent much of his the age of 27 he had become a life in Britain and the United valuable member of the States. He was the main ideologue Trinidad and Tobago and West and leftist thinker of the Indies Cricket Teams. His career nationalist movement in Trinidad C.L.R. James Learie Nicholas blossomed in Lancashire, and Tobago, 1958-1960, as well as Constantine England where he revolutionized a leading theoretician of the League Cricket. Trotskyite wing of American communism. As a pioneer, Lord Constantine C.L.R. James was an was a race relations and esteemed author and his human rights advocate, a Pan book, ‘The Black Jacobins’, Africanist, Head of the League is a highly influential of Coloured Peoples, and historical study of the respected author. He was a Haitian Revolution. It has diplomat, a politician, a been published in four journalist and a broadcaster. languages. The Constantine Collection The C.L.R. James Collection consists of personal consists mainly of primary Programme for the papers/speeches, manuscripts, Photographs of Lord documents and comprises Premiere of the play hand written notes,