Spiritual (Shouter) Baptists

The religion has an unusually precise legal history: a specific 1917 ordinance banned it outright, and its 1951 repeal is now commemorated as a national public holiday in Trinidad — one of the few Black Atlantic religious traditions whose suppression and legalisation both carry exact dates.

The Shouters Prohibition Ordinance (16 November 1917), repealed (30 March 1951)

A Trinidadian Afro-Christian religious tradition combining Baptist worship with African-derived spiritual practice, once outlawed by colonial authorities.

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