Schools Taking Part In Slavery Project

Contact: Primus Hutchinson

Monday, August 27, 2001 – Just over 30 Saint Lucian schools are taking part in a research initiative launched by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to obtain comprehensive information on the slave trade between Africa and the Caribbean during the colonial era.

Historical Secretary of the St. Lucia Archaeological and Historical Society Gregor Williams, said UNESCO is taking a three-pronged approach to developing the means of learning and understanding more about the slave trade, in which the major European colonial powers were involved.

“With this they came up with three programmes,” he said. “An education and teaching programme (with) an associated school project. We have about 30 schools in St. Lucia which are involved in that, about four infant schools, 14 primary schools, 14 secondary schools and I think the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. ”

Williams added: “The second  programme is on the promotion of living cultures and artistic forms of expressions. The third one is a programme of the memory of slavery and the Diaspora. In that programme we are looking at what UNECSO calls Places of Memory, places that you can identify with the slave trade.”

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