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AMOS WILSON speaks on the continuation of Black slavery
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USA is going backwards, redrawing electoral maps to stifle black voters again
Slavery was abolished in 1865
Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 -
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Won’t you set the Children of Israel free
Look how long we’ve been in captivity
Don’t you know one day we are going to be free
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MENTAL SLAVERY AMONG BLACK PEOPLE IS ALIVE AND WELL.
IN SOUTH AFRICA CURRENTLY BLACKS ARE ATTACKING AND TRYING TO EXPEL OTHER BLACKS FROM AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN SOME CASES KILLING AND BLAMING THEM FOR ALL SORTS OF REASONS.
HOWEVER THEIR FORMER WHITE COLONIZERS FOR THE MOST PART CONTINUE TO ENJOY ILL GOTTEN WEALTH WHILST SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKS ALLOW THEM TO WHILST THEY SUFFER AND BLAME OTHER ‘AFRICAN FOREIGNERS’.
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Call to learn history of slaves
BARBADIANS ARE BEING urged to become nation builders and gain education about the role enslaved people played in this regard.
Contrary to the notions that slaves were docile people, historian Dr Henderson Carter has contended that slaves were continuously engaged in protest and organising uprisings.
Carter, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, made the remarks while delivering the Eighth Annual Dean’s Lecture at the Courtney Blackman Grande Salle of the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) on Tuesday night.
The annual lecture is organised by the St Michael Centre for Faith and Action, a ministry of the Anglican Church.
Speaking on the topic Movers and Shakers: Activism for Democracy and Nation Building, Carter traced a history of revolt against the brutal system of slavery.
“The point we are making,” he declared, “[is that] the people were always plotting.”
Between 1838 and 1937, the historian contended, estate owners did not increase wages for the 100 years while child labour in the fields was common.
“This was a period of oppression,”Carter noted.
He said contrary to some beliefs, Bussa was at the forefront of the largest slave revolt in history, which took place in 1816.
There were strikes, plots and attempted insurrections, estates and estate property were burnt along with canefields and women played key roles in fomenting protest.
Carter repeated his concern over a lack of history education in schools.
He said some students could go through school and never learn Barbadian history and about slavery.
This, he described as a “dangerous thing”.
“We must always pay tribute to the enslaved people. We have to put back history in the schools,” he contended Carter described Golden Square in Bridgetown as “a square that pays tribute to that activism”. He said Heroes Square was a reminder of slavery.
“When we pass there we must be reminded of slavery,” he noted.
The historian cited several past and present “movers and shakers”, including Clement Payne, Duncan O’Neal, Wynter Crawford, the late Dean Harold Crichlow who spoke out against missing millions of dollars in the Auditor General’s report, Sir Hilary Beckles, Ambassador David Comissiong and former President of the Senate and disabilities advocate, Kerryann Ifil.
Carter said there was a role for everyone to build institutions.
“We must understand that we have to build a nation. Whatever you do, we are building a nation,” he said. ( HH)
Source: Nation
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