Carnival Origins

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PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD – FEBRUARY 26: Seychelle Ross portrays “Queen of Paradise” at the Red Cross Children’s Carnival at Queen’s Park Savannah on February 26, 2011 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. (Photo by Sean Drakes/LatinContent/Getty Images)

Carnival Origins

The Origins of Carnival!

The origins of Trinidad Carnival Trinidad Carnival dates back to the 18th century, and the influx of French Catholic planters – both white and free coloured – their slaves, and free blacks in the 1780s. The white and free coloured both staged elaborate masquerade balls at Christmas and as a “farewell to the flesh” before the Catholic Lenten season, with each group mimicking the other in their masking and entertainment. […]

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