Africa and Resistance Following Emancipation (The Slave Trade)
‘Africa and Resistance Following Emancipation’ is the
continuation of an African study titled ‘Africa In The
Caribbean‘ – By Dennis R. Hidalgo. This study is a historical
overview of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean. After
slavery, Afro-Caribbean people found that many things remained
the same; society’s scorn for African and neo-African cultures,
the political powerlessness of black people under colonial rule,
their poverty in a region that was producing raw materials for
the global economy. The long ostracized Haitian state, which
France was the first to recognized in 1825, but not after it
paid an undue indemnity for the planters’ loss in 1804, is an
acute example of the Afro-Caribbean post-abolition plight. In
response to this situation, which reached its pinnacle during
the GREAT DEPRESSION of the 1930s, black intellectuals wrote
scientific treatises, works of history, and poetry exalting and
affirming the Caribbean African experience. I