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Last Thursday, August 17 was the birthday of Marcus Garvey and given the fact that we are into Emancipation Month I had planned to look at Garvey in the context of a second Emancipation, borrowing from Grenadian historian Edward Cox (who incidentally is married to Vincentian Paula Nanton), whose lecture in Grenada in 2018 was entitled, “Towards a Second Emancipation: Garveyism in Grenada and Marcus Garvey’s Visit to the Island.” … ....
Last Monday marked one hundred and eighty five years since our ancestors were freed through their own struggles and through circumstances that made the system of slavery untenable. It had reached a stage where, as Eric Williams stated in his classic work CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY, it was either emancipation from above, that is through the king and parliament or from below as the people in Haiti did. Riots in Barbados … ....
I begin my column this week with a brief tribute to Nigel Greaves whose sudden death on July 17, at age 63, sent shock waves throughout the nation. The instant tributes through social media and on radio bear testimony to the type of person he was. This was followed by the large numbers that attended his funeral to pay their last respect to a man who, in different ways, touched … ....
We are into the last weekend of the month we dub Emancipation Month. Clearly a misnomer because whatever limited activities we have are centred on the actual emancipation anniversary day. Interestingly or perhaps ironically, it was one hell of a month with persons on the streets on several days, but particularly August 5 protesting for rights, which our ancestors hoped they had won on 1st August 1838. Freedom then was … ....