The Editor, Sir:

Mr. Seaga, the Distinguished Fellow at the University of the West Indies, has written about our lack of a monument to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Abolition.

Why has not the university taken a lead in this matter? After all, it is the institution that leads in matters of intellectual enquiry and in mounting conferences and symposia to further enlighten us on matters relating to ourselves.

The university could have mounted a symposium or conference with the leading authorities on this period of our existence e.g. Professors Cornel West of Princeton, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah and our own H. Orlando Patterson, inter alia.

Out of such an event could come an appeal to the private/public sector for funds to build a really important monument to that occasion in our history.

I am, etc.,

MIDDLETON WILSON

middletonwilson@bellsouth.net

Miami, Florida

Via Go-Jamaica