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At St Patrick’s Primary School, another little eight-year-old was being jeered because he sat on the toilet while emptying his bladder. It wasn’t funny, because my parenting taught me that one should never kick someone when he is down or trample on...
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 …
AT MIDNIGHT on August 1, 1834, Governor Sir Lionel Smith read the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps of the portico of the governor’s mansion. Yet, that was not the beginning of full freedom. The enslaved were still tied to the plantations...
The Atlantic Trade in Africans was officially abolished in 1808. But, from then until 1823, the antislavery campaign train seemed to have run out of steam. Abolitionists showed little interest in abolishing slavery itself. In 1823, the Anti-Slavery...
For over 300 years, Europeans enslaved Africans on the plantations of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Slavery was a brutal system of hard labour, the loss of lives and limbs of hundred of enslaved people, some of whom resisted from day one....