The History Forum

Careers "Out of the Box": Careers Beyond History By, Rashida Tull, Medical Office Manager and Medical Assistant  Rashida Tull is a graduate of the Department of History and Philosophy, The UWI Cave Hill Campus. Since graduating with a First Class Honours BA in History, Rashida has been working in the field of health information management. Building on the foundation of her degree she has taken professional development courses in Allied Health and Information Management.  She has worked at the QEH and Glaucoma Services (Barbados) Inc. and currently works at ONE Medical Clinic.  Rashida presented the following reflection on her History degree and the skills she learned as part of the Special History Forum "In/Out of the Box: Careers in History, Heritage and Beyond" which took place on Thursday, April 11, 2019 at The UWI, Cave Hill Campus. “History? Why History?” This is the resounding question I hear whenever I tell someone that I majored in history for my...

Esteban Montejo By, Joanna Louis-Parker,  HIST 6705 Family History and Biography The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave Esteban Montejo is  an account of a creole Cuban  Cimarron  named Esteban Montejo. The text provides an in-depth look at slavery in the Spanish-Caribbean colonial era. The autobiography, edited by Miguel Barnet and Alistair Hennessy, is an account of a life which straddled the transition period between enslavement and emancipation. In the account, Montejo provides details about his own experiences, as a runaway, with family, labor practices in and out of slavery, also with African mysticism, multi-culturalism, war and international relations in Cuba. At the time this account was being collected, the subject himself was 105 years old. Esteban had been born in an estate hospital (also called an infirmary) on 26 December 1860. He found out most of the details regarding his birth and parentage from his godparents. According to Esteban his fa...