Voices from the Field
Introduction The story of the Caribbean is a story of movement. For millennia, the region played host to various waves of indigenous groups who often engaged in circulatory movement throughout the chain of islands. The story of the Caribbean is also a story that involves displacement, imperialism and colonization. Scholars, anthropologists, historians and philosophers, such as CLR James, Constance Sutton, Sidney Mintz and Eric Williams, to name a few, argued that it was important not only to understand the Caribbean as a zone of inhumanity but also a region, whose collective labour force contributed to the growth of modernity and European capitalism. That historically, the region existed, not on the periphery, but at the center of the development of industrial capitalism. Life in the region is and has always been complex. From various types of mobility to cultural expressions; religious practices, family systems and wider belief systems; these have all been historically situated with