Georgetown : The Alliance For Change (AFC) joins with the rest of the Guyana in celebrating the emancipation of the African brothers and sisters heralded through the Passage of the Abolition Act in 1833. The part says “Today as we reflect on this the most heinous practice of domination and exploitation of man by man in modern history we celebrate our freedom and vow to preserve it for generations to come.
This “Holocaust” of enslavement saw the ruthless extraction of our Africans brothers and sisters from their homeland, and their subjection to the horrors and murder of the Middle Passage followed by slavery in the New World. This had a most destructive effect and cost the lives of millions of Africans.
Today, 176 years after its abolition in Guyana, we Guyanese are still battling the effects of this holocaust. Stripped of their culture and identity, Africans were both property and labour on the plantations producing super profits for expatriate colonizers. It is against this background that we recognize and applaud our fore parents who despite being enslaved walked off the plantations after emancipation and with pride purchased
We recognize that the African Holocaust was the genesis of modern racism as our colonial oppressors found it convenient to use race as the rationale to commit untold inhumanities for four centuries. We reiterate that there is no place for racial discrimination in today’s Guyana. Let us therefore as a Nation resolve to never again tolerate inequality, inhumanity, racism, the enslavement of and trafficking in persons, foreign oppression and domination.
Guyanese of African descent have made a marked contribution to the foundation and development of Guyana and the AFC looks with confidence to their continued vibrant role in nation-building together with all our people to complete our self emancipation and shake off the new chains that stupefy our country.
A happy and peaceful Emancipation to on an all!”
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