Event: Illustrated Readings (pre-recorded)
Host: Moray House Trust
Date: Saturday 20th August 2022
Time: 11 AM Guyana
YouTube: https://youtu.be/qgXbkqpsvzU
It is nearly two hundred years since the Demerara Slave rebellion in August 1823 (with the main encounter between the slaves and the state at Bachelor’s Adventure Plantation). In order to commemorate this milestone, Moray House Trust has curated a video recording of readings and illustrations about the rebellion. The project draws on two main sources; Emilia Viotti da Costa’s Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood and Joshua Bryant’s Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the colony of Demerara. Bryant, an artist resident in Demerara at the time, was an eyewitness.
The reading lasts about 45 minutes.
1823 The Demerara Slave Rebellion: https://youtu.be/qgXbkqpsvzU