STATEMENT BY THE GRENADA NATIONAL REPARATIONS COMMITTEE (GNRC) St. George’s, Grenada: On 1st August 1834, Britain passed the Slavery Abolition Act. The Abolition Act prohibited the buying, selling and owning of human beings in British colonies. It was the beginning of freedom for 800,000 enslaved people in the English-speaking Caribbean. The significance of August 1st is […]
Monday, August 1, 2022 Greetings, and a happy Emancipation Day to all. One hundred and eighty-four years after slavery was abolished by Britain, descendants of enslaved Africans are still recovering from more than four hundred years of unimaginable brutality, unthinkable cruelty and gross injustice meted out against our ancestors. Despite these human rights abuses and […]
Members and associates of the Grouping of CSOs extend greetings and best wishes to the people of the State of Grenada on this Emancipation week-end. We urge each individual to stop and reflect on the meaning this holiday. What does Emancipation mean, looking back and looking forward, particularly in the context of the current challenges […]
By Arley Gill As we commemorate another Emancipation Day here in the Caribbean region—we must stop and acknowledge with reverence and utmost respect the significance of this day. Our ancestors—men, women and children—dehumanized and exploited for profit on the very land on which I stand—demand that as we commemorate their freedom from slavery—that we also […]
THE 186th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERYIN THE CARICOM MEMBER-COUNTRIES WHICH WERE COLONISED BY BRITAIN BY DR. THE HONOURABLE RALPH E. GONSALVES PRIME MINISTER OF ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) On August 1, 2020, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) commemorates the l86th anniversary of the abolition of the enslavement of Africans in the […]
1 August 2020 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Thursday, 30 Jul. 2020) 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 […]
By Karl Duckworth, Principal Officer, U.S. Embassy Grenada This is my first Emancipation Day in Grenada. It is well worth celebrating that in 1833, across the British Caribbean, nearly a million people were freed from slavery. Although we don’t have a national holiday in the United States to mark the emancipation from slavery, many states […]
