ok like how Mayling was saying people from Kingston, Jamaica are more likely to be _____________, and people from some area might be different.

explain the differences and sub culture in your island, like the people may be different in the way they talk, dress, look, maybe more conservative. etc

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Most of the people who live north of the Island specifically in Marrigot and Wesle. They are mostly families from Antigua and Montserrat who migrated there many years ago. They speak differently. They usually speak their own patois lingo called "Kokoy" In Kokoy the word NEGA prnounced N I G G A is used to dicribe a person. Not in a racial way only in the kokoy liongo..

There are families on the island who's last names are Africa. Their families were the last set of blacks to come into the island via slave ships. Once set ground in Dominica they were free and took the last name of their Continent. They did not experience plantation slavery. The British Royal Navy had orders to search the seas, and to capture and liberate the people on any vessels carrying enslaved Africans that were heading for Brazil, Cuba, the USA and other destinations where slavery had not yet been abolished. Some of these vessels were seized near Dominica and the people on board were set free here. The Dominican ‘creoles’, born and brought up on the island for many generations, called the new arrivals ‘The Africans’. Some of them see them self as a special group.. I don;t cause they all blend in with any other Dominican.. Only way you can tell about their group is by their last name

Interesting, so what were the incentives for the Antiguans and Monserratians to migrate to Dominica?

are there any tensions?

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Well I know Montserrat natives moved there due to the abundant of land and opportunities they could have from working of the lands. Many of them infact nearly all of them were farmers who left their island in search of better opportunities. Many chose Dominica since it was close and shared many similarities with Montserrat. Home away from home. I think the same could be said with Antiguans during that time period when a heavy influx of them migrated to the northern part of the island. Ummm I wouldn't tension.. I mean some ppl from Marrigot were government elected and 2 term PM of the island. Some ppl however look at kokoy as the language of unintelligent ppl because it's a patois. some say the same about Creole. *kanye shrug

So Koyok is English creole and not French? when was the timing of this migration?

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Yeah it's an English based patois.

some time by 1860