Good evening honorable dignitaries invited guests, and the viewing audience,
159 years ago today, our ancestors the descendants of slaves were finally able to fully proclaim their freedom, as declared by the Emancipation Proclamation which legally abolished slavery in Dutch Sint Maarten. This after taking their freedom into their own hands some 15 years earlier when emancipation was declared in the French territories in 1848. It is reason enough to continue to celebrate and even more so to recognize the role that our ancestors played in acquiring this freedom. Even given that the enslavement of Africans was dehumanizing and brutal, ...
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