Sojourner Truth began her mission on this date in 1843

Ancestor

SOJOURNER TRUTH

(Isabella Baumfree)

born 1797

crossed over:1883

"Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing people their sins and being a sign to them, and Truth because I was to declare the truth unto the people." Sojourner Truth on the meaning of her name.

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right-side up again."Sojourner Truth

MAY THE ANCESTORS BE PLEASED WITH HER EFFORTS

Indian Arrival Day & Indentureship

A Ship used to transport indentures to Caribbean

Friday 30th May 1845

Ship: Fatel Rozack
Cargo: 225 Indentured labourers on a journey

of one hundred days from Calcutta, British India
3 fatalities -222 Arrived

Indenturers arrival on an island port near Trinidad

It was the lucrative Slave Trade to the British Caribbean islands, (not Chattel Slavery) which was abolished in 1834 by the English Parliament. Though the plantocracy was compensated, Afrikan captives considered property were required to serve five more years of service to their "OWNERS" under an assumed "Apprenticeship" scheme. This period was designed to enable them through a transition to CIVILDOM.

The British East India Company imported Indentured Labourers from Portugal,Syria, Lebanon, India, China, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Indonesia to replace the Afrikan captives.

This anniversary is celebrated with a Public Holiday in the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.

Ancestor Desmond (Dacres) DEKKER

Ancestor Desmond DEKKER (Dacres)
SKA & Reggae Pioneer
Born: 17th July 1941
Crossed over:May25th 2006

"Get up in the morning slaving for bread sir,

so that every mouth can be fed,

Poor me, Israelites...."

lyrics from "ISRAELITES" by

Desmond DEKKER©

may the ancestors be pleased with his efforts

Ancestor Betty Shabazz

ANCESTOR Prof. Dr. BETTY SHABAZZ

Mother, Wife, Activist, Nurse,

Health Services administrator, Academic, Humantarian

born 28th May 1936
crossed over:1997

MAY THE ANCESTORS BE PLEASED WITH HER EFFORTS