HAPPY EMANCIPATION DAY.

Emancipation was given to slaves in the British West Indies on the 1st of August 1838, after 450 years of Slavery. In Trinidad a colony with strong French, Spanish and Roman Catholic influences the news of this freedom was greeted by the Afro-Caribbean slaves with Cannes Brulees processions throughout the country.  “After Emancipation the negroes began to represent this scene as a kind of commemoration in their condition and the procession of the ‘cannes brulees’ used to take place on the night o the 1st of August, the date of their emancipation...”[1]

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[1] Hill Errol. The Trinidad Carnival. Pg23

A snippet of my dissertation. 

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Price of Sugar

In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced

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