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22 Fév 2021 16h39
ANAND MOHEEPUTH
History, it is said, has to be something more than just another event. That another event is applauded as a pivotal moment that turns the course of a nation’s destiny. When Dr Maurice Curé launched the Labour party on 23 February 1936, perhaps, he could hardly have imagined that the party he founded would survive for such a long length of time. His own tenure of the party leadership was short-lived, lasting six years only. He gave up because the Colonial government
The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images)
In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in Brooklyn. The taking of the ship was an unusual occurrence, as it was one of the few illegal slavers seized by an otherwise lethargic Washington, D.C., and Whitman wanted to give his readers a tour of the vessel, which had been designed to add even more enslaved laborers to the millions already ensnared in this system of iniquity, including of its hold, where those victimized were to be “laid together spoon-fashion.”