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abolition of slavery

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Staff Writer Aug 23, 2021

(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation Press Release) The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role…
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Why CARICOM must celebrate Emancipation Day

Michelle Nurse Jul 31, 2019 0

(Barbados Today) This coming Thursday, the 1st of August 2019, is Emancipation Day – the day on which we celebrate the anniversary of the 1834/1838 abolition of slavery in the British Empire. But it is also a day on which we should…
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Opinion: Windrush is a chance to end British intolerance dating from slavery

Michelle Nurse Aug 1, 2018 0

On the anniversary of abolition, we must end the discrimination that is the legacy of that horrific past By Guy Hewitt, High Commissioner of Barbados in London 1 August, 2018 (The Guardian) Lest we forget, 1 August marks the 184th…
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