Emancipation Bill News Today

Introducing a new occasional online column by Professor Ampersand: designed to discuss words, language and related matters of interest and/or concern to the Left. My aim is to discuss the usage and origins of words, their change of meaning as time goes by but also, importantly, the connections and interactions of these words with other words.

Introducing a new occasional online column by Professor Ampersand: designed to discuss words, language and related matters of interest and/or concern to the Left. My aim is to discuss the usage and origins of words, their change of meaning as time goes by but also, importantly, the connections and interactions of these words with other words.

Celebrated on 1 August to commemorate the end of slavery in the British colonies (1838), Emancipation Day — a public holiday — is usually marked with street processions (a morning procession, including towering moko jumbies, and a flambeaux-lit Canboulay procession in the evening); religious and ...