CSPAN3 May 2, 2012
what we thought of as a major advance for freedom in the world has been attained. it starts in the parish immediately adjacent to menard's home. this is st. thomas in the east, a parish on the eastern shore of jamaica, in a small colonial town of morant bay. on a routine court case, there is an african-american defendant who is being charged with a fine for alleged trespass on an abandoned plantation that had essentially been allowed to become overgrown, and this particular defendant in the case had crossed onto the land, and we think that he may have attempted to cultivate some food...