Before Columbus – The First Caribbean Civilizations confronts the oldest and most ignored chapter of Caribbean history. Long before European arrival, the islands were home to complex societies with systems of governance, agriculture, navigation, spirituality, and trade. This episode strips away the myth of an empty or undeveloped region and replaces it with evidence of a living world that functioned, adapted, and endured for thousands of years.
Told with a gritty documentary voice, the episode explores how these civilizations lived, how their knowledge was passed down without written scripts, and how erasure began even before violence through distortion, renaming, and silencing. It traces how loss was engineered and how fragments of Indigenous survival still shape Caribbean identity today. This is not folklore. It is foundational history.
Most people know the U.S. Virgin Islands for their white sands and warm waters—but this story goes far deeper. Beneath the tourist gloss is...
The Story: In this hard-hitting episode of THE HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN, we strip away the myth of the "political messiah." From the labor...
Did Shaka Zulu Really Build an Unbeatable Army? Step into a gripping tale of power, strategy, and cultural resilience as we explore the true...
