Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement that “there was no slavery in Australia” is at odds with the historical record
By Thalia Anthony & Stephen Gray
August 6, 2020
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August 6, 2020
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‘So much to learn’: The untold stories of slavery in Canada
This 1786 painting, titled “Portrait of a Haitian woman,” was done by François Malépart deBeaucourt and is believed to be an enslaved woman named Marie-Thérèse Zémire at age 15.
TORONTO — A pregnant teen escaping captivity in a wintry Quebec. A young woman forced to pose nude for a painter in Montreal. The son of a […]
August 6, 2020
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The Myth of the Peaceful Plantation
THE WHITEWASHING OF HISTORY
By Wayne Curtis
A few years ago I was working with a family that wanted to build a rum distillery on their land—a 2,000-acre sugar plantation that their ancestors had acquired in the 1850s. They insisted to me from the outset that it not be called a sugar plantation but rather a “sugar […]
August 6, 2020
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August 6, 2020
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August 6, 2020
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Apologists for Slavery and Against Reparations Always Deserve Absolute Responses!
By Earl Bousquet
With Reparations in the air everywhere now more than ever on both sides of the Atlantic following the killing of George Floyd and the US Black Lives Matter protests, apologists for the heirs and successors of the benefits of the Slave Trade and against growing Reparations are working overtime to undermine the increasing […]
August 2, 2020
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Caribbean Observes 186th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery
The “Bussa” Statue, in Barbados, created to commemorate the nation’s slave rebellion in 1816.
GEORGETOWN-Guyana -The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will observe the 186th anniversary of the abolition of slavery on Saturday, with the chairman of the regional integration movement, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves saying that this year’s observance is taking […]
August 2, 2020
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Saint Lucia NRC Planning Ahead for XXX Anniversary of Sir Arthur Lewis’ Passing
The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) and several stakeholder entities are organizing a year of activities leading to the XXX Anniversary of the passing of Sir Arthur Lewis, the island’s first of two Nobel Prize winners, who was also a pioneer of the Caribbean Reparations Movement.
The planned activities will follow the successful 2020 Sir […]
August 2, 2020
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Parallel 2020-2021 Saint Lucia Reparations Lecture Series to target Citizens, Schools and Kweyol Speakers
The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) announces two new parallel initiatives coming soon, later this year: a year-long National Online Reparations Lecture Series starting in August and a similar series for Schools in September.
The lecture series, which are jointly sponsored by the NRC and The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Open Campus […]
August 2, 2020
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Emancipation Day Statement by the Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC)
Black Lives Matter Protests Produced Unprecedented Prospects for CARICOM’S Reparations Demands!
The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) joins the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) and NRCs across the Commonwealth Caribbean, in observance of Emancipation Day 2020, which comes at a significant point in the history of Saint Lucia, the Caribbean and the […]
August 1, 2020
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Emancipation Day Message from Professor Sir Hilary Beckles Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission
The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) joins with all citizens of the English-speaking Caribbean and all others who understand and promote racial justice and equality in observing 1s August as Emancipation Day. We do this at a most important and inspiring time in our history when the Black Lives Matter and Reparations movements are sweeping the […]
July 30, 2020
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