🇹🇹👩🏾‍🌾🎄 Women of Trinidad’s Christmas Rebellion 1805 Around Christmas 1805, enslaved women on the Shand Estate in Diego Martin became central figures in a planned uprising against the slave regime in Trinidad. They prepared poison as a feared method of resistance, intending the action to begin locally and spread across the island. Their organizing drew on African convoys, later called regiments, which structured community life, leadership and mutual support under enslavement. These women a