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Crafting a Black woman’s experience of WW2 in the Caribbean
In October 2025 Sweet Patootee Arts released our WW2 drama film “CORNWALLIS CLOTH”
We are now fundraising, and working with UK and international partners, to deliver a landmark touring programme of heritage activities, training around this heritage, creative interpretation, and production of digital resources – all of this inspired by our WW2-themed storytelling and research.
As a foretaste of what’s to come, Sweet Patootee Arts have written a free-to-access blog – “Making CORNWALLIS CLOTH: Crafting a Black woman’s experience of WW2 in the Caribbean”.
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Click here for information about our CORNWALLIS CLOTH exhibition on now, at London’s iconic Old Royal Naval College until November 2026
Extract from our blog – “Crafting a Black woman’s experience of WW2 in the Caribbean”
“CORNWALLIS CLOTH is about an ordinary Black woman – Bonita Skeete (1), a police sergeant’s wife – at a defining moment in Caribbean and world history: The perfect storm of war, geo-politics, and civil rights struggle that gripped the region in WW2.
Or to put it another way, she embodies contradictions and pressures of the Caribbean’s multiracial war effort under colonial rule: Non-White civilian populations trapped in poverty at the bottom of the social ladder, playing a major part in the allies’ global fight for freedom, but torn between civil rights struggle or gaining agency by colluding with colonial rulers who withhold social justice. Today ordinary Black people who experienced WW2 in the Caribbean are veiled in archival silence. CORNWALLIS CLOTH aims to disrupt that silence…”
Click the image to see CORNWALLIS CLOTH’s promo by IWM 14-18 NOW
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