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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.
Belize's slaves were primarily tasked with work processing timber which differentiated their experiences from that of colonial slaves on plantations.
Quite often when the issue of emancipation is being discussed we hear the words “emancipate yourself from mental slavery”. Most people associate them with Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” where we find “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.” It is really an adoption of a speech delivered by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia, Canada on October 1, 1937. Garvey said then, “We’re going to emancipate …
‘If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that…’Abraham Lincoln
IN his SONA and post-SONA speeches, President Bongbong Marcos has noticeably taken a more proactive posture on how to rebuild a broken agricultural sector. His marching order to his DA subalterns—“consolidation, modernization, mechanization and improvement of value chains.” Boosting agricultural production through the foregoing interrelated programs is “augmented by timely…