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‘Mightily like insurrection’: Revisiting Trinidad’s first Emancipation Day

The petit careme hadn’t come yet, and August 1, 1834, was real rainy-season weather. An all-day rain fell and flooded the streets of Port of Spain, but still a bewildered, bedraggled crowd stood for hours outside Government House.

There was an equal number of men and women, about 300 in all, some holding their children in their arms. They were field labourers, dressed in the ragged clothes they wore for work, but they…

Priyanka Lalla, a Teenage Climate Activists and UNICEF Youth Advocate For The Eastern Caribbean Caribbean, Joshua Prentiss, a Climate and Ocean Scientist, and Zaafia Alexander. Discuss Small Island Development States Youth Climate Activism

This year we go BounXup