THE CHURCH was the most important social institution for ex-slaves in the immediate post-Emancipation period. The church made emancipation meaningful by providing land through the Free Villages programme... (Boyne)
THE UNITED Nations declared 2004, the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery, this being the 200th anniversary of the Independence of Haiti, the first free nation. (Buddan)
ON FRIDAY, May 15, 2004, more than 28 years after we departed...our family, now somewhat larger, returned to a country almost unrecognisably different from the one we left. (Cooper)
