A summary of the reign of Elizabeth II and events that took place during her reign
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July 2, 2021
CARIBBEAN HISTORIES REVEALED: 20TH CENTURY TRANSITIONS (NATIONAL ARCHIVES, UK)
At the time that this picture was taken, Antigua was under British Colonial rule. Its very existence proves that the British were content to let their subjects live in abject squalor, document it and send it back for filing.
IMAGE ATTRIBUTION: Esemono, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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March 13, 2021
GEORGE BRIDGETOWER
It is known his mother was a Polish European, his father was of African ancestry, and he was born in Poland.
Image credit: Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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March 6, 2021
WALTER TULL
His life stands testament to a determination to confront those people and those obstacles that sought to diminish him and the world in which he lived. It reveals a man, though rendered breathless in his prime, whose strong heart still beats loudly.”
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February 26, 2021
JOHN RICHARD ARCHER
n 1921, he chaired the Pan-African Congress in London and, in 1922, he became the Labour Party’s secretary election agent for Shapuril Saklatrala, an Indian-born communist activist in North Battersea. He worked for Saklatrala until 1924 when the Communist and Labour Parties split.
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November 22, 2020
THE BARBADOS SLAVE CODE – An analysis
Legally sanctioned sheer brutality was necessary to maintain a regime where men, women and children were worked to death like beasts of burden.
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November 22, 2020
BARBADOS, 1625 -SETTLEMENT BY THE ENGLISH
Across the Americas, the Spanish and Portuguese and then the Dutch were heavily involved in trading Africans to the New World. By 1663, England’s Royal Adventurers to Africa were fully involved as well, regularly offering slaves for sale in the West Indies for £17 each .
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October 12, 2020
COURTTIA NEWLAND
They are still treating us like “other,” they are not treating us like we are part of the fabric of the society, they are still treating us like an anomaly.
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October 9, 2020
BRITAIN’S INVOLVEMENT WITH NEW WORLD SLAVERY & THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: BRITISH LIBRARY
Many of the enslaved Africans were branded with the initials ‘DY’, standing for Duke of York. They were shipped to Barbados and other Caribbean islands to work on the new sugar plantations, as well as further north to England’s American colonies.
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October 9, 2020
OLAUDAH EQUIANO: BRITISH LIBRARY ENTRY
He was baptised at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, in February 1759.