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.
“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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