HISTORIAN DR KARL WATSON has dismissed a claim that his views on Bussa were akin to those of a white supremacist.
He responded yesterday to criticisms made by fellow historian Sir Hilary Beckles while delivering the annual Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture at the UWI Cave Hill campus last Thursday evening.
The discourse, which has laid bare a difference of viewpoints between Watson and Sir Hilary, arose out of comments relating to the role of national hero Bussa in the 1816 slave rebellion.
Watson had said that there was no proof that Bussa had led the rebellion, while Sir Hilary, the UWI vice chancellor, argued in his lecture that the evidence was there to support the argument that Bussa was indeed the man who took charge. (ES)
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