{"id":225,"date":"2024-08-19T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverheritagetours.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2024-08-19T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:38:14","slug":"season-of-emancipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoverheritagetours.com\/blog\/season-of-emancipation\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SEASON OF EMANCIPATION’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

August is the\u00a0 month in which we celebrate the ‘Season of Emancipation.’\u00a0 This season encompasses the end of chattel slavery in the year 1838 and the traditional end of the crop festivities. The British colonization of Barbados instituted chattel slavery to satisfy the need for a large labour source, which was paramount to the cultivation, harvesting and production of sugar cane for sugar, rum and molasses.\u00a0 The production of sugar was a labour-intensive exercise, especially where high profit margins were the goal and the British intention for coming to the \u2018New World, was definitely to enrich themselves.\u00a0 The success of\u00a0 this goal became evident, as Barbados became officially referred to as \u2018The Jewel In The English Crown,\u2019 for its contribution to the enrichment of that country and its people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Enslaved Africans kidnapped, sold into slavery and transported<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In the spread of its cultural heritage, the British would establish the traditional \u2018Harvest Home Festival\u2019 on the Barbadian cultural landscape, celebrating the harvest or end of the crop season.\u00a0 This custom would also be reflective of the West African celebration of\u00a0 \u2018The Yam Festival.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 On each plantation the completion of the crop from planting to reaping would be celebrated.\u00a0 From antiquity this custom was upheld across England, with a similar tradition in\u00a0 parts of Scotland, Ireland, and northern Europe.\u00a0 While\u00a0 the mono-crop of sugar cane was the focus of the harvest celebrations, in the northern climes, the harvest of other crops were \u00a0observed.\u00a0 The celebrations included food, music, dancing, and some rum was also issued to the enslaved on the plantations of residence.\u00a0 Today, the mass celebration still falls within these categories, as people celebrate in a more organized way but with the retention of the celebratory focus on the end of the crop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Enslaved Celebrate the \u201cHarvest Home Festival\u2019<\/strong> Then…..<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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And now the Crop Over Festival……<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

After over two hundred years of chattel slavery that powered the sugar cane industry of the 1600s to 1800s, In the year 1838, British emancipation came to an end.\u00a0 Generations of black Africans who were stolen away from their countries on that continent, as well as some Irishmen, Scotsmen, Native American Indians and others, through forced migration were brought to these shores under horrendous conditions, to face a life of drudgery and exploitation.\u00a0 Emancipation was therefore celebrated with a view of hope for the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Celebrating the hope of emancipation<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

However, hope would be dashed. Although chattel slavery had its official declaration of freedom established to commence on August 1, 1838, the attendant rights and privileges of freedom were not secured. So, it would take the riots across Bridgetown in July 1937, to bring the attention of the British government to the continued drudgery and abject conditions of poverty that caused the formerly enslaved to erupt into protests.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Riots In Bridgetown 1937 \u2013 Policemen Pursue Protestors<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Today, as a nation we look back to celebrate the heroism and resilience of our ancestors, who stand in our historical narrative as colossus spanning time.\u00a0 We therefore proudly note their struggle toward emancipation, as the bridge from enslavement and harsh living conditions, to survival and freedom as gifted to their descendants!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAPPY SEASON OF EMANCIPATION!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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