Topic: slavery

Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly finished off a busy week at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa by holding talks with key counterparts, including the Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Collins of Highbury.

Emancipation Day made its return for the first time in more than 60 years this week, centred around the Monday holiday.

In a slim blue book of yellowing pages – 'Accounts of Slave Compensation Claims' – the literal price of freedom is laid out in pounds and shillings.

As Cayman celebrates Emancipation Day for the first time in over half a century, the Cayman Compass takes a detailed look at how a century of slavery came to a dramatic end on these islands.