{"id":54289,"date":"2020-08-17T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54289"},"modified":"2020-08-17T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T14:49:48","slug":"emancipating-old-narratives-of-emancipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54289","title":{"rendered":"Emancipating old narratives of \u2018emancipation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><big><strong>&#8230;and examining colonials\u2019 \u2018deceitful bait-and-switch\u2019<\/strong><\/big><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By Claudius Fergus<br \/>\nAugust 16, 2020\t&#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/wired868.com\/2020\/08\/16\/emancipating-old-narrative-of-emancipation-and-examining-colonials-deceitful-bait-and-switch\/\">wired868.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=raffique-shah\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/emancipation-esc.jpeg' width='150' height='150' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Photo: ESC director of regional and African affairs Khafra Kambon (right) poses with the Emancipation monument.' \/><\/a>In defiance of the rapid community spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, kept the promise he made on Emancipation Day 2019 to unveil T&#038;T\u2019s first emancipation monument\u2014the only live public event on Emancipation Day 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Like many thousands of other Trinbagonians, I missed the commemorative spectacles of the longest day in the Pan-African Festival\u2019s calendar. But instead of regrets, the occasion motivated me to reexamine the intellectual underpinnings and contradictions of Britain\u2019s 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nManumit; emancipate: \u2018same difference\u2019, one might say. Actually, there is an important difference.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"https:\/\/wired868.com\/2020\/08\/16\/emancipating-old-narrative-of-emancipation-and-examining-colonials-deceitful-bait-and-switch\/\">Full Article : wired868.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and examining colonials\u2019 \u2018deceitful bait-and-switch\u2019 By Claudius Fergus August 16, 2020 &#8211; wired868.com In defiance of the rapid community spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, kept the promise he made on Emancipation Day 2019 to unveil T&#038;T\u2019s first emancipation monument\u2014the only live public event on Emancipation Day 2020. Like many thousands of other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emancipating old narratives of \u2018emancipation\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,17,677,964,1,268,5,632],"tags":[104,1495,158],"class_list":["post-54289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-caribbean","category-england-international","category-france-international","category-general-tt","category-haiti-caribbean","category-international","category-racism-watch","tag-african","tag-claudius-fergus","tag-emancipation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54290,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289\/revisions\/54290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}