Description In 1776 Joseph tienne Maingot, a young bourgeois boy from Bordeaux, traveled to the French island of Martinique to join his father.
In 1971, Maingot was appointed to the Constitutional Reform Commissio.
Upon receiving his Ph D at the University of Florida, Gainesville, he was awarded a post-doctoral in History at Yale University where he was promoted to Assistant Professor of History and Sociology and was Director of the Antilles Research Program.
He was born in Trinidad and Tobago, educated there, in Costa Rica, and Curaçao, and spent long summers in Venezuela.
Their son, Anthony Edward is a Federal Judge in Miami and their daughter Michčle Maingot Cabral is a teacher and author in Maine.
Maingot lives with his wife Consuelo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The permanence and love of the Island by the many male and female descendants of Joseph Etienne Maingot, through the best and worst of times, has earned them the honorific: "Sons of the soil."About the Author Anthony P.
So was Carnival and Calypso born.
The many clashes over language, religion and education, gave rise to a French Creole identity known for its congenial life style, its music, cuisine and piquant sense of humor.
In 1797 the English conquered and struggled to deal with a polyglot population, originally growing sugar and then cocoa, and a French culture tinged with West African influences.
They were enormously successful.
Laurent, a visionary Grenadian creole, Joseph tienne Maingot and many other French settlers with their slaves began to develop the formerly abandoned island.
Led by Roume de St.
What brought him to this "isla inutil" (useless island) ignored for over 200 years while other European powers battled continuously to possess even the smallest island in the Caribbean?A Royal C dula in 1783 had signaled a change in Spain\'s colonization policy offering generous land grants to White and Free Colored Catholics.
In 1786 he left for Trinidad, a Spanish island (barely) governed from Caracas.
Description In 1776 Joseph tienne Maingot, a young bourgeois boy from Bordeaux, traveled to the French island of Martinique to join his father
