On 1st August 2013, we commemorated 175 years since the emancipation of all persons enslaved-as-Negroes in the British Empire. This event, in 1838, fell in the middle of a Century of Emancipations that stretched from the very first emancipation of persons enslaved-as-Negroes (declared by the French civil commissioner, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, on Saint-Domingue/Haiti, 220 years ago, in 1793) to the very last emancipation of persons enslaved-as-Negroes (enacted by Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, in the Golden Law, 125 years ago, in 1888). In the intervening 95 years, our ancestors across the planet struggled to free themselves from a soci…
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