Via The Caribbean Beat Blog, here is info on the upcoming Emancipation celebrations coming to Guadeloupe & Martinque later this month…

On May 22 and May 27, respectively, Martinique and Guadeloupe commemorate the abolition of slavery (1848). With the call of the conch shells, numerous celebrations, conferences, parades, plays, costumes, drumming, and dancing take place in Fort-de-France and Point- à-Pitre to celebrate the abolition and to pay homage to the men and women who were torn from their African homelands and enslaved for more than three centuries for colonial profit. Many of the festivities focus not only on the trauma caused by these dislocations (also see the March 17 post “Anse Cafard Memorial in Southern Martinique”), but also on the resistance and contestation undertaken by generation after generation.

For more info, check out the full article here: Emancipation Days in Martinique and Guadeloupe @ Repeating Islands.

Tags: Emancipation, Guadeloupe, History, Martinique, News, Slavery

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