Caribbean Emancipation Day

The Broward Times | July 26, 2002| | Copyright

With a stroke of a quill on August 1st more than one hundred and thirty years ago, the British and other European governments abolished the inhuman system of slavery. Although appealing crimes marks the course of human history, the "slave trade" i.e. the European Atlantic trade, has set the standard and gave rise to the world discovery of crime against humanity is all about. On April 27 1848, Victor Schoelcher, the French under-secretary of state for the colonies, signed a decree abolishing slavery. To force the decision through, he had warned of the danger of a general uprising if nothing ...

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