YESTERDAY’S ANNUAL Emancipation Walk turned into a history lesson on the streets.
Now, Commission for Pan African Affairs officials want that same history lesson to become part and parcel of this country’s school syllabus.
“This is an education process that needs to be started in primary schools, and continue to secondary schools and even further,” director of the Commision of Pan African Affairs, Dr Deryck Murray, told the SUNDAY SUN yesterday.
The annual walk, which started yards away from the Emancipation (Bussa) Statue near Haggatt Hall, St Michael, attracted just over 100 people in blazing late afternoon sunshine yesterday, with noted historian Trevor Marshall explaining to those along the route the events that led to the abolition of slavery in Barbados more than 300 years ago. (BA)
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