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New Orleans, Louisiana — The last full weekend of June, the New Orleans Caribbean Carnival [60] usually held in conjunction with the New Orleans Caribbean Experience, host a series of parties, four events, three days in celebration of the New Orleans Caribbean Carnival 2021!!
Carnival Monday: February or March: Carnival Tuesday: March or April: Good Friday: Easter Monday: First Monday in May: Labour Day: May or June: Whit Monday: First Monday in August: Emancipation Day: Marks the end of slavery in 1834. [1] November 3: Independence Day: From the UK in 1978. November 4: Community Service Day: Public service holiday ...
This is a list of holidays in Saint Kitts and Nevis. [1]1 January: New Year's Day 2 January: Carnival Day Good Friday; Easter Monday; 1 May: Labour Day Whit Monday; 1 August: Emancipation Day, commemorates liberation of slaves in 1834.
The annual Carnival in Trinidad dates back to the 1780s, when an influx of immigrants from the French West Indies emigrated to Trinidad in response to the Cédula de Población. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] These immigrants included French planters and 'free coloureds' (free people of mixed race), [ 13 ] [ 11 ] [ 14 ] as well as enslaved Africans.
This is a list of holidays in Saint Lucia. [1] [2] 1-2 January New Year's Day; 22 February Independence Day, from the UK, 1979 [3] Variable Good Friday; Variable Easter Monday; 1 May Labour Day; Variable Whit Monday; Variable Corpus Christi; 1 August Emancipation Day, commemorates the liberation of slaves in 1834. [4] First Monday in October ...
J'ouvert is a Caribbean carnival celebration of ancestors as well as liberation, [32] a popular part of many Caribbean carnivals. On Antigua, J'ouvert is a celebration of freedom from slavery on the island. [29] [23] The term j'ouvert comes from a French creole word jour ouvert, meaning "daybreak". [21]