barbados and. only cuba and pleasure rico remained under spanish rule. after the extermination of the natives are a lot people the 1st sugar canes flourished on this for thailand the caribbean became a space of conquest for the europeans very early on really was the 1st place that columbus landed in the new world the 1st place that the spanish began to search for gold and the 1st place they began to enslave the indians so they were thoroughgoing spaces created by design of european planters and imperial policy makers and for their profit right there aren't so many places where you can completely overlay a territory like that so there are in some ways the caribbean is a space where you find the purest of colonial territories where the masters of the space actually get to create the space to suit their own needs. in one loop every plot of land every single square inch of ground is connected to this violent and deeply rooted history. today all that is left of the sugar war is a field of ruins. of the 250 sugar refineries active in the late 1900 century only

island permitted a british ship with confirmed virus cases to dock cuba allowed the ship in after barbados the bahamas and the united states all refused the captain's request to come ashore or gaston as the story. after more than a week adrift at sea the british cruise ship the braemar arrived into an industrial

jamaica and barbados were loyal colonies. the king and parliament send 120,000 pounds sterling in disaster relief. all of this was raised by merchants in britain. inh all of this crash course imperial disaster relief, it should tell you that disaster relief was a thing. the 1750's between and 1780's. it mattered what kind of a context the disaster happened in. hurricane relief for jamaica and barbados was a political dividend. the colonists earned it by their loyalty to the king and empire. government-sponsored benevolence and disaster relief became standard practice. american to declare their established in 1776 political institutions that did whoprovide relief to people suffered the ravages of hurricanes, fires, and other calamities. it affects pretty much the entire city. this epidemic is important for a lot of reasons. a lot of people have written about it. test of how the u.s. government would respond to a deadly disaster. philadelphia was home to three governments, federal, state, and local. all of them fled the city as

barbados and the leeward items. leeward islands. this is a symbiotic relationship that extends beyond the economics. it is very much economic, but there is a considerable amount of cultural exchange as well, so some of the earliest graduates of harvard, for example, worthy sons -- -- of west indian were offor example, were the sons planters. it solidified economic ties. the new england colonies begin borrowing heavily from the slave societies in the caribbean to create their own systems of slavery here. for example, massachusetts borrowed slave law and customs directly from barbados. enslaved people who arrived in the region, enslaved africans, actually spent time in the west indies before they arrived here. sometimes, they were born there. sometimes, they spent a couple months after arriving on a slave ship, but they spent a considerable amount of time in the caribbean. using this caribbean connection as a starting point, my book then turns and exports the way in which enslaved people arrived in new england. enslaved about 20,000 a

they arrived in barbados a little bit later. very quickly, these islands are completely colonized and turned over to sugar cultivation. almost the entire islands are. they are entirely stripped of forests and any piece of arable land is planted with sugarcane, and eventually, they used enslaved africans to work those cane plantations. these islands, because they have been completely stripped of their forest, only growing sugarcane, they need food, they need provisions for that enslaved labor force. they need supplies like timber for building and for burning. they need livestock for food and labor, and they turned to new england. as early as the 1630's, you see new englanders selling these provisions to the west indies. they, it is used to fuel the plantation complex there, and in exchange, new englanders received sugar and molasses and things like -- and enslaved africans. it forms a symbiotic relationship between the two regions, between new england and the west indies. first barbados but eventually the leeward islands. eventua

they arrived in barbados a little bit later. very quickly these islands are colonized and turned over to sugar cultivation. isost the entire island strip of forest and any piece of land is planted with sugar can e. they used enslaved africans to work the plantations. these islands, because they have been stripped of the forest, they need food. they need provisions for the enslaved labor force. they need supplies like timber for building and burning, they need livestock for food and labor, and they turned to new england. you see new englanders selling the provisions to the west indies. used to fuel the plantation complex there and in exchange, new englanders receive sugar and molasses and enslaved africans. it forms a symbiotic relationship between the two regions, between new england and the west indies. this in the attic relationship and this relationship -- symbiotic relationship that extends beyond the economic but there is a considerable amount of cultural exchange as well. some of the earliest graduates of harvard were the

relief for jamaica and barbados was a political dividend colonists earned by their loyalty. interestingly, government-sponsored benevolence in disaster relief became the britishctice in empire after the war was over. americans who declared their independence in 1776 by contrast established political institutions that did not whoide relief to people suffered the ravages of hurricanes, fires and other calamities. response to the fever epidemic that killed in philadelphia in 1793, it affects pre-much the whole sadie. this epidemic is important for a lot of reasons. a lot of people have written about it. for me what's important was it is the first test of how the u.s. government would respond to a deadly disaster. at the time philadelphia was , home to three governments, federal, state, and local. all of them fled the city as soon as the epidemic happened. at the time, philadelphia was ,eserted by government types volunteers were left behind to attend the sick and bury the dead. if you look at president washington's correspond with this cabinet. it indicates the nation's leaders

it's the dead of night on the caribbean island of barbados.urricane hunter usually flies into monster storms to learn how they grow. >> let's go ahead and turn and start climbing. >> reporter: on this night, we watched as the team dropped remote sensors, lo almost 60 ov eight hours. >> i'm going to hear that in my sleep. >> reporter: to gather data about a subject that only becomes visible with the rising sun. >> so where we want to be is just below cloud base -- >> looks like there's some cells lining up. >> reporter: the white, puffy cumulus clouds this tropical region is famous for may be the crucial missing puzzle piece for anyone trying to predict the rate of climate change. if we don't understand clouds, can we ever be accurate in climate modeling? >> no. you can't. because they're a huge part of te climate system. >> he's actually -- >> reporter: chris farrell is noaa's lead investigator for an unprecedented six-week-long field exercise called atomic. >> this is like the biggest large-scale open air cloud laboratory in the atlantic. >>

and they've tested positive for the coronavirus so barbados did not allow them to disembark, now come here and no coronavirus cases so far, officials say, but allowing them to refuel, get more food. resupply essentially off the coast. not allowing them to dock and not allowing anybody to get off the ship. stuck aboard the ship. the passengers made available to be in touch with say they are trying to remain calm. >> reporter: and so everybody aboard the ship would really like to know what happens next. the government has been firm saying they will help the ship, they will allow them to resupply but then the ship needs to continue on somewhere else. we know from talking with the united kingdom, government representatives, representatives of this cruise ship line, they're desperately looking for another port of call. essentially right now they are looking for a different country. they can get everybody off the ship, the people infected get them into quarantine at a hospital and get everybody, mainly british citizens, back home, but, of course, who, at this point in this pandemic, is goin

sing er rihanna joined the list she donated $700,000 worth of vebt laters to her home country of barbados. her foundation pledged $5 million in aid the money will be given to organizations fighting covid-19 around the world >>> mother's day in the uk was spent with social distancing and a sweet post from kate middle n middleton. they shared this new photo of prince george and princess charlotte riding on their backs. the duke and duchess shared a throwback photo of princess dianna there was also a mother's day card made by prince george >>> meteorologist janessa webb is looking out at storms >> it's really good to see it's tough times people are are coming together and i know people want to be outside, but this week, stay indoors. we have storm systems rolling through the deep south, midwest to the northeast and i mean this is going to be continuous you'll see a lull in the weather pattern by tomorrow afternoon. another wave will come in for the northeast. we're following the snow making its way across buffalo it's the higher terrain we're watching from northern nebrasw englancould see 9

islands refused to ship permission to dock on public health problems the governments of bahamas barbados and the dominican republic did not allow it to dock because they did not want the current a virus spreading further through their local populations but even more strain on the public health systems the cuban government has said that they've taken this decision on humanitarian grounds and that this is a moment where the world needs to come together if there's still a chance of containing this pandemic here on the island the decision has been contentious some people think it's right that they've allowed the dock that they will that they have allowed these people to be evacuated here in cuba other people think that particular difficult economic time the last thing cubans need is an increased spread of coronavirus on the island today there have been a few cases. and people are worried but i'm sure that now this is docked and in the coming hours once people start to get evacuated and flown home the people on the ship police will be relieved that this stage of a torturous ordeal has not com

island permitted a british ship with confirmed coronavirus to dock cuba allowed the ship in after barbados the bahamas and the u.s. all refused the captain's request to come ashore at austin has the story. after more than a week adrift at sea the british cruise ship the braemar arrived into an industrial port west of the capital on wednesday after a torturous journey the crew seemed elated to have finally landed passengers descended from the boat and were bussed to safety in a rescue mission executed by the cuban and british governments. i'm conscious that this has been a difficult and uncertain journey for the passengers and for the crew and i'm very grateful to the cuban government for enabling this operation to go ahead the braemar had been stranded at sea for over a week and was denied authorization to dock in the dominican republic the bahamas and the u.s. but cuba allowed the ship to come in saying a sense of humanity was required to halt the pandemic. going to become will we cubans are proud to step up in a situation like this we are convinced and sure that we can deal with anything

tens of thousands are other cases you have hundreds of thousands, how is it determined son went to barbadosfor some went to jamaica? how were those destinations determined? >> it is largely demand and also what kind of merchant networks connect to what kind of places so the trade of the gold coast every european power is involved with the british and the dutch and the danish take greater numbers of people from that particular region of the coast they and other european slave trading powers so those people that they are taking are the biggest and most productive colonies so jamaica gets the lion share because they have so many planters demanding so many workers and they have a network through the gold coast because they prize people from that particular region they have long contacts so they wind up getting greater numbers of people. if you have a region that is favored by merchants then the number of people coming the percentage of people coming the scale of the trade is determined who in the colonies has a business relationship to connect to that source of supply. does that make sense? loo

want to sell enslaved people and sell when he could not discipline demand be put on his ship to barbadosad maybe three years to live under those conditions. knowing that he might not even make it there. he knew what he was doing. i think washington did have a great sense of for a certain group of people of what was right and what was wrong and he did believe in ambition and opportunity and those are fundamental american values it only applies to a certain group of people. i think he was a good friend. he could be a good friend to someone like lafayette. he was very into exceptional people. he had great things, he also was an amazing athlete. that is something. something that we everyone is always grasping to describe, why him, why did they all revere him? it's something we can't describe. we couldn't describe it about someone we see in this room, it's charisma. it's the hardest thing to really go into detail about. i think that was probably his greatest attribute was something we could least describe. at that. >> i'm curious how you think about the importance of telling a complicated nar

they were supposed to end their cruise a few days ago in barbados but that is when those five testedre awaiting resupply now because at this point they are not being allowed to dock in the bahamas. it is unclear where that ship is going to end up or if there could be more cases on board? around the world there are other cruise ships dealing with something similar. we know there is a ship with a confirmed case off the coast of brazil and off the coast of chile in south america. there are two ships there. one has a confirmed case. 83-year-old man. the other no confirmed case of yet. but this shows you the dangers that cruise ships can pose during times like this is. i was out in japan covering the diamond princess. hundreds of people eventually tested positive for the virus on that ship. these are floating petri dishes and certainly a big rilz for the people on board the four ships now quarantined in different parts of the world. >> we've seen a lot of cruise ships out of u.s. saying they are taking a hiatus and won't be operating right now and keeper a hearing the medical experts sayi

the bahamas are old people who got on the wrong cruise [ laughter ] "i thought we were going to barbadosrump has always conflated immigrants with criminals despite the fact that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native born americans this is, in many ways, the central lie of his political career and he repeated it again during a rally on monday. even doing some crowd work with the audience in north carolina >> one of the biggest issues in this election is, in fact, sanctuary cities sanctuary city policies that force prisons and jails to release criminal aliens directly into your neighborhoods. get out. go ahead go into the neighborhood go into -- what's your neighborhood where do you live? [ cheers ] okay so how do you feel about having them release hardened, horrible criminals into rutherford county i don't think so >> seth: oh, they're releasing hardened criminals into rutherford county? are your aides on parole [ laughter ] i mean, seriously, now - [ cheers and applause now he's -- he's just making up scary stories. he should hold his rallies in the dark with a flashlight u

a man he put on a ship to barbados where he knew he had maybe three years to live under those conditionsd the captain of the chiship, disguised bad news knowing that he might not even make it there. he knew what he was doing. i think that washington did have a great sense, for a certain group of people what was right and what was wrong. and he did believe in ambition and opportunity. and those are fundamental american values, it only applied to certain group of people. i think he was, he was a good friend. he could be a good friend to someone like lafayette. he was into very exceptional people. he had great things, he was also an amazing athlete. that is something, something w we -- everyone's always grasping to describe why him? why did they revere him? it something we can't describe. we couldn't ascribe about something we see in this room. it's charisma, it's the hardest thing to really go into detail about. i think that was probably his greatest attribute something we can least describe. >> i am curious how you think about the importance of telling a complicated narrative about a hist

islands refused to ship permission to dock on public health problems the governments of bahamas barbados and the dominican republic did not allow it to dock because they did not want the current a virus spreading further through their local populations but even more strain on the public health systems the cuban government has said that they've taken this decision on humanitarian grounds and that this is a moment where the world needs to come together if there's still a chance of containing this pandemic here on the island the that decision has been contentious some people think it's right that they've allowed the dock that they will that they have allowed these people to be evacuated here in cuba other people think that particular difficult economic time the last thing cubans need is an increased spread of coronavirus on the island today there have been a few cases. and people are worried but i'm sure that now this is docked and in the coming hours once people start to get evacuated and flown home the people on the ship police will be relieved that this stage of a torturous ordeal has no

would have taken too long they tossed the bahamas barbados on the united states don't they don't know they had no it's a go cuba said yes and i think if you look at the history of cuban. humanitarian gestures the very striking in those who studied them do you conclude that authentically is out of humanitarian concern cuba's doctors are well respected i think it's fair to say across the world but they're also of course a very good source of hard currency for cuba without wanted to sound too cynical is this possibly a good opportunity in the midst of this crisis for cuba through its doctors. i think it is and that's very much the other side of the coin so cuban medical internationalism the leasing of doctors the export of doctors if you like started almost 60 years ago. cuba time and had very few doctors and had a society with terrible and i mean indicators right from the beginning in the anyone sixty's after the cuban revolution started sending doctors all around the world after. all sorts of bomb iraq and to help the most vulnerable and latin america africa and asia don't have and can