Driven by desire: Communities develop in post-emancipation Tobago - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Dr Rita Pemberton The contrasting attitudes of plantation owners and the freed African population to the implementation of the law that terminated enslavement in the British Caribbean possessions in 1838, set the stage for ongoing tension and conflict in post emancipation Caribbean. While plantation owners received a compensation package of a £20 million grant for
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