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Conference on the Caribbean

The Conference on the Caribbean is taking place against the backdrop of the recent coming into being of CARICOM Single Market in 2006 and the positive efforts towards the creation of the framework for the Single Economy by 2008. (Read more)

THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVERY: THE PSYCHIC INHERITANCE

Adress by Professor Rex Nettleford
(UN Observance of the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Monday, March 26, 2007 UN Headquarters, NEW YORK)

I come from that part of the Americas - the Caribbean - which is arguably the living laboratory of the dynamism of the encounters between Africa and Europe on foreign soil, and both with the Native American who had inhabited the real estate of the Americas time out mind, during periods of conquest and dehumanization along with the corresponding process of struggle and resistance. For these purposes, North-East Brazil with its iconic centre in Bahia, New Orleans and all of that Eastern littoral of North America, referred to as Plantation America, constitute along with the island-Caribbean the geo-cultural area that houses a civilization with its own inner logic and inner consistency. (Full Address)