Guadeloupe

And then even post-World War II, they were recruiting women who were refugees or were in displaced persons camps.

And in midst of all of sort of that, where we get the first sort of specifically targeted labor domestic scheme from Corbin Newman, which happened between 1910 and 1911, when around, I believe, 100 women were brought from Guadeloupe to Quebec.

Unfortunately, there was a lot of racist public outcry and the scheme was cancelled.

And during the recession, sort of immediately after that, many Caribbean domestic workers were deported because there was a fear that they would become really strains on the public purse, which is really unfortunate.

Route to Rum.

Yeah, she kicks off today at 1.02 in France and heads to Guadeloupe.

And so the Route to Rum destination Guadeloupe is about to kick off and it's just a straight line from... from Somalo down to Guadalupe.

Oh, you've got to do that little sort

of

and taking salt water and trying to remove the salt from it so that they can have fresh water.

And at one point during those two decades, things get so dire that they start importing fresh water from nearby Guadeloupe.

So they will send vessels to these rival islands that are French colonies and load these vessels up with hogsheads, which is a barrel.

It's a unit of measurement, hogsheads of water, and then transport them back to Antigua and sell them for a pretty high price, right? They're going to gouge these prices.

Why was that? And how did rum factor into the imperial rivalry between France and Britain?

Yeah, so interestingly, the French also have sugar plantation islands in the Caribbean, Martinique, Guadeloupe, later Saint-Lemain.

And they've got all the same raw materials, could have made rum, and did to a small extent.

But basically, they're discouraged by the French government saying, discouraged and eventually prohibited by a French government that wants to protect its domestic brandy industry.

So

a comrade was speaking a little before of what's happening in Guyane, in Guadeloupe.

But actually, what is happening in the metropolitan France, we don't know what is happening.

everything is silenced since yeah so what is happening there does not appear in the media regarding the working conditions we have in my school we don't have any social worker in my high school it's been 8 years in my high school we also have only half time nurse She's also explaining that her management teacher and management in her... curriculum is something that is very heavy, that in the final diploma it amounts a lot.

And rather than trying to kind of iron them out or make sense of them, to kind of fill in the gaps or kind of speculate, I acknowledge those silences.

So, for example, one of my characters, Addie Fiddle, was a black woman from Guadeloupe.

And for a long time, she'd been kind of cut out of history you know she was man ray's partner and she was reduced to an image she was a face that people recognized but nobody really knew about her and there's now a lot of research being done about her and she's quite rightly regaining her rightful place in in history and art history So I found out what I could about her, but I very much wanted to acknowledge that she has been taken out of history and kind of reduced to a face and a body.

So I actually, I came across Edouard Glisson in his theory about opacity and the right to opacity.