West Indies Blues: an historical overview 1920s-1950s — blues and music from the English-speaking West Indies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Before slavery was abolished in the United States, black people in the British West Indies were perceived as brothers in blood in the fight for Emancipation. The ending of Apprenticeship in Britain‘s colonies (1 August 1838) was cause for annual celebration by enslaved black people in the South, until freedom was achieved at the end of the Civil War. 1 Cultural influences moved in both directions. For example, George Liele, a famous black American slave preacher from the southern states, was instrumental in establishing a mission in Jamaica. By the early 1800s his Baptist church had tentacles that stretched from black Christian converts in the United States, to Jamaica, Canada, Britain, and ultimately Sierra Leone in Africa. 2 In Trinidad (1,000 miles south of Jamaica), one early North American connection was the Company Villages, where the administration settled black troops who had fought on the side of the British in the War of 1812-14 with the U.S. 3
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".