Contemplating Emancipation with Dr. Michael Toussaint

Welcome to Let's Talk History! Episode 13 Contemplating Emancipation with Dr. Michael Toussaint, Lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Education.

Today, as we celebrate Emancipation Day, Dr. Michael Toussaint questions the reality of the emancipation of the enslaved peoples within the context of planter compensation, the apprenticeship system and the lack of reparations to the injured parties.

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Dr. Michael Toussaint is a History lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He specialises in the History of the African Diaspora, of European imperialism and of the Caribbean and has published work on the migration of African West Indians to Venezuela during the nineteenth century and the evolution of Caribbean politics and culture. His current research interests are Caribbean gender politics and neo-colonial academia in Caribbean historical discourse. His forthcoming publications include “Engendering Nationhood: Women in Social and Political Activism in Twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago,” and “When Silence is not Golden: Prompting a Regional Response to the Question of a Pre-Columbian African Presence in the Region.”