Emancipation Day 2022 Message from the Leader of the Opposition, Mark J. Golding, MP
Emancipation Day is of great historical significance to Jamaica and many other countries across the world that were formerly part of the British Empire. Plantation slavery came to an end at midnight on July 31, 1838, and so the 1st of August is the anniversary of the day when slavery came to an ended. It is the day on which...