Last Monday marked one hundred and eighty five years since our ancestors were freed through their own struggles and through circumstances that made the system of slavery untenable. It had reached a stage where, as Eric Williams stated in his classic work CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY, it was either emancipation from above, that is through the king and parliament or from below as the people in Haiti did. Riots in Barbados …
One of the major tasks facing our people once we had broken the colonial bonds and declared what was in fact “Flag Independence” was to begin the process of telling our own story. Our colonial conquerors had been telling “our story” and, in the process, attempted to define who we were. As a young student Francis Drake and John Hawkins were my heroes. Our history texts glorified them. When I …
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