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Connect Pan American Highway across Darien Gap: Emancipation Olaudah Equiano

Connect Pan American Highway across Darien Gap: Emancipation Olaudah Equiano: Olaudah Equiano Day The citizens of Trinidad and Tobago celebrate Emancipation day a national holiday proclaimed on August 01, 1985. To be...

Emancipation Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano Day

The citizens of Trinidad and Tobago celebrate Emancipation day a national holiday proclaimed on August 01, 1985. To be free from restraint and control by another person is worth celebrating. Some black men recognized what freedom meant to all peoples. African descendants celebrated freedom in Trinidad from as early as 1793. Emancipation was delivered when the economic and political environment in England was in an economic transformation. The legality of slavery was tested in the court of the British law Lords. When judgment was delivered it began to shake the very institution of slavery. The legal vibrations in England began to open the independent ideals of the British colonist in America. To recognize yourself as being black in the western diaspora you have made a commitment to regain the freedom that you once had and lost.

It is the duty of every human to make an effort to obtain economic, political rights and eventually social equality. This is specifically true for disenfranchised black people. This is a painfully slow process, it is the peaceful way but this road widens as technology changes. When freedom is felt the sensation is like liberating a child from an abusive parental authority or to be free from someone with strong hands. In the countries that exploited the spoils from slavery their citizens enjoy equal status. They have equality before the law, regardless of religion, property or other private characteristics that may reside within them. In societies such as these it is difficult for that race, to see others who look different, as equals. When an era of suppression ends the many variations of freedom can suddenly be shared, this is the understanding of what emancipation can bring to humans.

Thirteen current and former British colonies commemorate Emancipation Day including Canada and South Africa. Two groups of black warriors who fought on the side of the British during the American war for independence were settled in Trinidad between 1793 and 1815. They were Muslim soldiers born in Africa and the Merikins from the southern states in America. The Merikins settled in Princess Town and Moruga, the Muslims in Comuto, Manzanilla and Valencia. Antigua and Barbuda freed their slaves upon the declaration of emancipation in 1834. The other territories had to endure a period of apprenticeship before full emancipation in 1838. Their lobbyist in Britain argued that the slaves had to be trained to be free. Whilst black people agitated for a shorter period of apprenticeship, their white masters were negotiating compensation for his property. The British government agreed to purchase the slaves from the white planters.

To seal the deal they borrowed £20 million pounds to recompense their slave owners. The loan amounted to 40 percent of the treasury’s annual income and was paid out in1835. The debt was finally paid off in 2015, about a hundred and eighty years later, by the British tax payers. The loan was the largest in British history. Not a penny was awarded to those who were enslaved and brutalized.  The conditions that continued after slavery were now one of marginalization and racial segregation. Today the black man in the western world is for the most part penniless, as the elitist continue to extract his sweat and blood. It is time for some form of compensation to be forwarded to the patient black man. It is never too late we must push on with our demands.

One hundred and fifty years later, on August 01, 1985 the government of Trinidad and Tobago was the first country to declare Emancipation Day as a national holiday. This activity has blossomed into celebrating African culture in the colonies, many with weeklong celebrations. This freedom quest had begun centuries ago, the light of emancipation always burned; it began with the first abduction in Africa. When the opportunity for freedom presented itself, the African, against all odds always grabbed at the opportunity. In 1771 the course of slavery was triggered by events far from North America. It took place in Great Britain when a very brave black man, Olaudah Equiano ran away from his master Charles Stewart. The master had returned to England in 1769, accompanied with him was his black slave Olaudah Equiano also called James Somerset.

Having a black slave in England represented high status and was generally accepted in English society. Equiano was born in the Eboe province in southern Nigeria. He was kidnapped at the age of eleven and sold in Barbados and then to Virginia. He loved the name Equiano. His story is extraordinary. Although he was in the company of the abolitionist he was a black man in a strange land. This was eighteenth century England, where the black needy would freeze or starve to death on the streets. These wretched black souls were reduced to begging or stealing. To steal was not a good idea because in the eighteen hundreds it was a hanging offense. If you escaped the gallows, you were thrown into a private overcrowded prison with no bed, no heat, little food, and less sanitation.

It was within this existing situation for black people in London that Equiano decided to escape from his master. Equiano was recaptured and Stewart had him imprisoned on a ship bound for Jamaica and to be sold as slave labour. Equiano courageously submitted his life to his godparents and Granville Sharp, the abolitionists who took charge of his quest for freedom. Sharp decided to make a test case of Equiano’s plight. He used the writ of habeas corpus to have Equiano removed from the ship. On December 09, 1771 Equiano appeared before the Court of King’s Bench. The case revolved around his presence in England. Sharp contended that once Equiano was on English soil he was a free man. The case took many months before Chief Justice Lord Mansfield and drags into 1772.

After many months no legal precedence could be found to decide the case either way. Finally Mansfield frees Equiano on the grounds that slavery is so odious that the benefit of doubt must prevail on Equiano’s behalf. The newspaper response in America was hostile in response to the judgment delivered by Mansfield. Equiano willingness to sacrifice his life for freedom triggered the American War of Independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.  This great African sowed the seed of obtaining legal freedom at a dark and almost hopeless time.  His struggle for equality must be seen as a beacon of hope for black people around this earth. He must be honoured and remembered by his people. Thanks to Olaudah Equiano the light of equality burns brightly, he is the absolute sole of emancipation.  Happy Olaudah Equiano day to all peoples.  2020 emd.

Conecte la Panamericana entre Panamá y Colombia

Carretera Panamericana Land Rover trío se completa 1.961 expedición
• 11 de agosto 2015
• En la sección de Bristol

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Tres hombres cuyo viaje por carretera a través de las Américas se vio interrumpida por el invierno de Alaska en 1961, finalmente han terminado su viaje al Círculo Polar Ártico.
Mike Andrews, de 76 años, Martin Hugh-Jones, de 79 años, y Ben-Mackworth Praed, 79, cubrieron la última etapa de un viaje de 40.000 millas en su Land Rover original.
Condujeron la Serie 2 vehículos 1960 de Fairbanks a Prudhoe Bay, en la costa del Ártico, el lunes.
El Sr. Andrews, de Bristol, dijo: "Al igual que nosotros se nota su edad, pero sigue adelante."
Los tres hombres eran graduados de Cambridge, cuando se pusieron en el viaje por carretera de mamut a través de 17 países, desde el extremo sur de Argentina hasta el estado más septentrional de Estados Unidos en septiembre de 1960 en la carretera Panamericana.
'Fue increíble'

 

Pero cuando llegaron a Fairbanks, el camino llegó a su fin y fueron repelidos por el invierno de Alaska.

Vendieron el Land Rover que pagar por su tarifas aéreas casa.
En 2010, el vehículo volvió a allanar en Alaska, cuando su propietario leyó un artículo sobre el viaje original y reconoció el logotipo expedición en el lateral.
El vehículo de la Serie 2 fue restaurado por entusiastas Eddie Ángel y los tres hombres reunidos en Alaska esta semana, para unirse Sr. Angel y periodista Mike Rudd en la final de 500 millas de viaje, acompañado por una caravana de otros Land Rover vintage, impulsados ​​por entusiastas locales.
El Sr. Andrews dijo que había "llegado a la orilla del mar de Beaufort en temperaturas de congelación y la lluvia constante en la isla de Endicott, Prudhoe Bay" después de conducir durante dos días.
"Fue increíble, no sólo para estar al volante de nuestro vehículo viejo otra vez, pero con mis compañeros originales para completar el tramo final de nuestro viaje desde Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, que tuvimos que abandonar en diciembre de 1961", dijo El Sr. Andrews.

Amazing trip with no roadway across the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia

Pan-American Highway Land Rover trio completes 1961

expedition

• 11 August 2015
• From the section Bristol

 

 

Three men whose road-trip across the Americas was cut short by the Alaskan winter in 1961 have finally finished their journey to the Arctic Circle.

Mike Andrews, 76, Martin Hugh-Jones, 79, and Ben Mackworth-Praed, 79, covered the last leg of a 40,000 mile trip in their original Land Rover.

They drove the 1960 Series 2 vehicle from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Coast, on Monday.

Mr. Andrews, of Bristol, said: "Like us it shows its age, but keeps going."

The three men were Cambridge graduates when they set out on the mammoth road trip through 17 countries from the southern tip of Argentina up to the most northerly US state in September 1960 on the Pan-American Highway.

'It was amazing'

But when they got to Fairbanks, the road came to an end and they were beaten back by the Alaskan winter. They sold the Land Rover to pay for their air fares home.

In 2010, the vehicle resurfaced in Alaska, when its owner read an article about the original trip and recognized the expedition logo on the side.

The Series 2 vehicle was restored by enthusiast Eddie Angel and the three men reunited in Alaska this week, to join Mr. Angel and journalist Mike Rudd on the final 500 miles of the trip, accompanied by a convoy of other vintage Land Rovers, driven by local enthusiasts.

Mr. Andrews said they had "arrived at the shore of the Beaufort Sea in freezing temperatures and steady rain at Endicott Island, Prudhoe Bay" after driving for two days.

"It was amazing, not just to be at the wheel our old vehicle again, but with my original companions to complete the final leg of our voyage from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, which we had to abandon in December 1961," said Mr. Andrews.

 

Siria Semillero de la Contaminación

Así que usted piensa que Siria es una cama caliente para la insurgencia, el terrorismo, las guerrillas, los demócratas de izquierda y derecha, dictadores, coalición de los dispuestos al oeste, la coalición de Rusia.

Los ataques aéreos no hay botas sobre el terreno, las botas que emigran a Europa. Bomb médicos y pacientes o salvar la cara envían 50 tropas.

Irán y Hezbollah invitados. ¡Ah! ¡Ja! El partido de Dios debe estar presente. Bashar, Barack, Vladímir Putin, Isis, Al nustra, kurdos, sunitas, chiítas todos ellos alcanzan el nirvana en Siria.

La lengua de los diplomáticos falaces vomita obliteración, los residuos, la contaminación y la muerte. Guerra contamina. Detener la contaminación.

Middle East Hot Bed for Pollution

So you think that Syria is a hot bed for insurgency, terrorism, guerillas, left and right wing democrats, dictators, coalition of the willing west, Russian coalition.

 

Air strikes no boots on the ground, boots migrating to Europe. Bomb doctors and patients or save face send 50 troops.

Iran and Hezbollah invited. Ah! Ha! The party of God must be present. Bashar, Barack, Vladimir, Putin, Isis, Al Nustra, Kurds, Sunni, Shia they all attain nirvana in Syria.  

The tongue of the fallacious diplomats disgorges, obliteration, waste, contamination and death. War pollutes. Stop the pollution.