1763 Berbice Slave Revolt : 250 Years !

‘Britain’s Black Debt: reparations owed the Caribbean for Slavery and Indigenous Genocide’ ;

was delivered by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Researcher at UWI’s Mona Campus, Jamaica.


The second was delivered by internationally acclaimed historian, Guyana-born Professor Emeritus Dr. Alvin Thompson, who spoke on:

‘The Horrors of Slavery and the Desire for Freedom’.

The third and final lecture was held last Thursday at the Umana Yana, Kingston, Georgetown

Guest speaker Professor Verene Shepherd, Professor of Social History at Mona Campus,

University of the West Indies (UWI).  The theme of her presentation was:

‘United in Anger, United in War:  Gender and Anti-slavery in Caribbean History’.

The release of a special ‘commemorative coin’ in observance of the 250th Anniversary :

of the Berbice Slave Revolt  8)

* The opening of the 1763 Monument Information Centre on Vlissengen Road  .. ::LOL::

Cuffy statue is Back !!  :-[

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The third and final lecture was held last Thursday at the Umana Yana, Kingston, Georgetown

Guest speaker Professor Verene Shepherd, Professor of Social History at Mona Campus,

University of the West Indies (UWI).  The theme of her presentation was:

‘United in Anger, United in War:  Gender and Anti-slavery in Caribbean History’.
[/quote]  call me when they are united in anger against Burnham as a history  lecture

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Cuffy statue is Back !!  :-[
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dats a liberator

Mapoui not even here celebrating 

he over at GMO trying to fix the world food problem

Here we are bigging up the Slave revolt :

Holding Seminars at the lovely Umana Yana :

addressing Issues like Reparations by some Doctorate qualified descendants of Slaves !

and he deh moaning on some odda thread about GMO.......stewwwwpppss  >