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Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Stating the Facts

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 15 August 2008 17 years ago

A freelance writer pens an Emancipation Day article for The Jamaica Observer that suggests “slavery was good for the black man”, prompting The Modest Goddess to point out “the staggering amount of evidence that contradicts (his) writing.”

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