The enslavement of others also had a negative effect on the psyche of the European in not being able to recognise the common humanity of all mankind. That incidentally is a fact for which the abolitionists fought in the British Parliament as they sought to have the slave trade abolished, ending the dehumanisation of a people under the yoke of slavery.
Today's celebration of Emancipation Day marks the 180th anniversary of the coming into force of the Slavery Abolition Act which ended slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1834.
While directed and celebrated in the main by the two major ethnic groups in this country, both Emancipation and Indian Arrival days really should be viewed as opportunities for the entire cosmopolitan society to reflect on the progress that the country has made since the end of chattel slavery and the human bondage that was indentureship.
Another freedom that the society celebrates today, even if it is not widely understood and acknowledged, is the release of those who engaged and enforced slavery and indentureship on other human beings. The enslavement of others also had a negative effect on the psyche of the European in not being able to recognise the common humanity of all mankind.
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