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so a one year old? a one year old. yeah. this is the beausejour estate, high in the hills of grenada, once a sugar cane plantation jointly owned by the trevelyans. the production of sugar cane fuelled the transatlantic slave trade. and it s here that slaves, owned by my family, worked long hours harvesting the crop. this is the location where the slave master would come out and look over the slave plantation, the sugar plantation. at beausejour, i met the second of my guides, the historical novelist dc campbell, who grew up on grenada. dc explained what life was like for the slaves shipped here from west africa
The Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation and Allied Workers (KUSPAW) has warned that the current fuel shortage poses a great risk to the operations of different sectors in the country.
to the post independence generations of barbadians. it is those generations who must now define how our country and citizens will dominate the world stage, create a new vision and build barbados s future. barbados to me is where my story begins. i was born in britain, my grandparents are from here, it s happy memories, it s the rum shops, it s the people. but everything that my grandparents showed me when i was growing up seems to be changing. my granddad s story is typical of many barbadians, or bajans , as we re known. he moved to england as a young man, hoping to better himself. but what i didn t know is before he did, he worked on a sugar plantation. so this lane might not look
but what i didn t know is before he did, he worked on a sugar plantation. so this lane might not look like much, but it is special, because we are walking in my grandad s footsteps. and just around the corner is something that ties together the queen, britain, and my family. this is the belle plantation. at its peak, nearly 300 slaves were forced to live and work here. after slavery was abolished, it was bought by a family who were close friends of the queen. she came to visit this place on her last trip 55 years ago. hi! good to see you! good to see you my brother, give me an elbow bump. so this is the belle plantation.