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Some shameful sins of slavery
published: Sunday | February 4, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody PgAjQ="true">
<SMALL JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">Edward Seaga </SMALL><P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">The sins of slavery did not end with emancipation. Some have endured from that time. These are postscripts of slavery. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">On August 1, 1838, <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> woke up to find that, as of that day, all the able-bodied men among the 310,000 freed men, women and children were suddenly unemployed. This was a devastating blow for a small country with no experience in dealing with unemployment and no resources to tackle the problem. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">The impossibility of gainful employment being found immediately by a country without resources, would be daunting to even the best of the post-war leaders who had to re-build their bombed-out countries in a few short years. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">SOLUTIONS <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">Two solutions presented possibilities as the only recourse to these conditions of desperation. A great many of the former slaves took to the hills to plant the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">food </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">products</SPAN> they learned to grow in their spare time as slaves. They sold the produce mostly to each other. But as they all grew the same products, the market was relatively small and the scope of small farming was too limited to absorb all the unemployed former slaves. Some returned to the plantations to work for starvation wages and the provision of substandard <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">housing</SPAN>. These two solutions, however, were still inadequate to absorb all the surplus of unemployed labour. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">A third option became available - migrating to neighbouring countries where there were openings available for unskill
Some shameful sins of slavery
published: Sunday | February 4, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody PgAjQ="true">
<SMALL JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">Edward Seaga </SMALL><P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">The sins of slavery did not end with emancipation. Some have endured from that time. These are postscripts of slavery. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">On August 1, 1838, <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> woke up to find that, as of that day, all the able-bodied men among the 310,000 freed men, women and children were suddenly unemployed. This was a devastating blow for a small country with no experience in dealing with unemployment and no resources to tackle the problem. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">The impossibility of gainful employment being found immediately by a country without resources, would be daunting to even the best of the post-war leaders who had to re-build their bombed-out countries in a few short years. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">SOLUTIONS <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">Two solutions presented possibilities as the only recourse to these conditions of desperation. A great many of the former slaves took to the hills to plant the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">food </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">products</SPAN> they learned to grow in their spare time as slaves. They sold the produce mostly to each other. But as they all grew the same products, the market was relatively small and the scope of small farming was too limited to absorb all the unemployed former slaves. Some returned to the plantations to work for starvation wages and the provision of substandard <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">housing</SPAN>. These two solutions, however, were still inadequate to absorb all the surplus of unemployed labour. <P JSEXy="0" fhpFT="0">A third option became available - migrating to neighbouring countries where there were openings available for unskill
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