Baliceaux

Baliceaux is a small, privately owned Caribbean island and is one of the Grenadines chain of islands which lie between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada. Politically, it is part of the nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

In the 1790s, the British army banished about 5000 Black Caribs to Baliceaux following the defeat of the rebellion of Carib Chief Joseph Chatoyer in Saint Vincent. Their descendants live today as the Garifuna people in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and in the USA.

The island had a small area where the Black Caribs that died from disease were buried. This has since been eroded over time by wind and sea, and very little remains of the area where the people were buried.

Coordinates: 12°57′00″N 61°08′45″W / 12.95000°N 61.14583°W / 12.95000; -61.14583


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