Comments on: Stumbling towards freedom http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2007/03/stumbling-towards-freedom/ Nicolette Bethel's Blog Sun, 20 May 2012 21:30:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Bahamas: Ignoring abolition http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2007/03/stumbling-towards-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-12772 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Bahamas: Ignoring abolition Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:48:51 +0000 http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/?p=257#comment-12772 [...] Nicolette Bethel wonders whether the complete absence of any discussion about the anniversary of abolition in the Bahamas is because it’s an election year: “Is it because people on the PLP are afraid to make too much out of it because of the long years of invoking slavery in election years. . . have rendered the concept of slavery impotent as a political tool?“ Georgia Popplewell [...] [...] Nicolette Bethel wonders whether the complete absence of any discussion about the anniversary of abolition in the Bahamas is because it’s an election year: “Is it because people on the PLP are afraid to make too much out of it because of the long years of invoking slavery in election years. . . have rendered the concept of slavery impotent as a political tool?“ Georgia Popplewell [...]

]]> By: haitianministries http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2007/03/stumbling-towards-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-12764 haitianministries Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:53:35 +0000 http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/?p=257#comment-12764 Interesting observations here. A few days ago, one of my theology classes got sidetracked into a discussion on why Amazing Grace wasn't showing in the Bahamas, and my students raised many of the exact same points you mentioned above. In the meantime, my blog is getting about a dozen hits a day from google searches on the Atlantic Slade trave. My webcounter stats indicate that about 95% of those searches are originating in the U.K. and the remainder from diverse countries such as the U.S., Canada, Jamaica, Nigeria, and India. So, yes, it looks like this is a really BIG DEAL in the U.K. Interesting observations here. A few days ago, one of my theology classes got sidetracked into a discussion on why Amazing Grace wasn’t showing in the Bahamas, and my students raised many of the exact same points you mentioned above.

In the meantime, my blog is getting about a dozen hits a day from google searches on the Atlantic Slade trave. My webcounter stats indicate that about 95% of those searches are originating in the U.K. and the remainder from diverse countries such as the U.S., Canada, Jamaica, Nigeria, and India. So, yes, it looks like this is a really BIG DEAL in the U.K.

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