The story of Easter includes an episode of two travellers on the Emmanus road (Luke 24: 13 - 35). They, like many of us today, were distressed and down-hearted. Life was tough, with challenges that bu
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#BTCoumn – Affirmation of the darker brother (Part 1)
Article by May 7, 2021
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by
David Comissiong
The black American poet – Langston Hughes – might very well have been describing the relationship between our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its fellow predominantlyEnglish-speaking Western Hemisphere nations of Canada and the United States of America (USA), when he penned the following lines :-
“I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes…”
You see, there were three poles of British colonization in the Western Hemisphere: namely, the English-speaking colonies of “lower” North America that formed themselves into the United States of America; the English-speaking colonies of “upper” North America that were consolidated into the Confederation of Canada; and t
After peace came in 1783, the new republic faced a two-fold economic adjustment: to peacetime from the artificial production and trade patterns during the war, and to a far different trading picture than had existed before the war. The largest change between the two eras of peace was the shift in trading patterns resulting from independence. Most importantly, while Americans were freed from the shackles of British mercantilism and could trade freely with the rest of the world, the United States was now a foreign country that could no longer freely enjoy a market
within the British Empire.
While the bulk of America’s trade remained with the British Empire, the pressure of New World opportunities and tightened British restrictions greatly changed the structure of American trade. American exports to Great Britain fell almost in half during the 1780s, the bulk of the drop being in rice and especially in tobacco. Before the war, tobacco was compelled to go to Britain and was re-expor