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Abolition of Slavery : Public Holiday in #Mauritius 01.02.2019
Stolen People , Stolen Lives
As an islander the best way to learn about the #slave trade was to visit the colonists countries such as Britain, France, Spain , Portugal etc and to study the mindset of explorers like Christopher Columbus who searched for sources of wealth for Spain, for instance. ” Slaves were generally awakened at four in the morning and worked until ten or eleven o’clock at night.Upon arising the slaves went to the sugar mill where they ground eight, nine or ten cauldrons of sugar ….. and the slaves worked up to 20 hours a day during harvest season ” A priest describing the sugar work in Barbados which was the first island to be tranformed by the sugar that traders called “Brown gold”. “Life under Slavery” by Deborah H Deford makes interesting reading on a public holiday which gives an opportunity to reflect on the historical events since Christopher Columbus arrived in Hispaniola with the first free Africans in 1492 and the introduction of Slavery in 1502. The rest is history.
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