St. Eustatius
Why blue beads are cast in the ocean every emancipation day in St. Eurasia, other Caribbean islands
When slavery was outlawed in the Dutch Antilles on July 1, 1863, one of the significant means of transaction that became a relic was the blue beads that were given to the enslaved as remunerations. The blue beads were no longer of value except for the memories they evoked among slave owners and the freed…
