A welcome glimpse of the bicentennial exhibition at Guyana’s National Gallery.

Powerful new re-imaginings of Quamina, 52, Jack, 28, & Amba, 26. For two centuries, all we had were Joshua Bryant’s toxic images of insurgents defeated, hanged, decapitated. But in recent years, Quamina & his compatriots have re-emerged in sympathetic portrayals by Black artists.

Interesting to see the Gladstone and slavery story covered around the world - in this case, on Indian TV.

Important article on a story some would rather forget. It concerns the research of @MalikAndTheOGs on a company that ‘monopolised much of the Demerara sugar trade during the late 18th Century and the 19th Century.’

In early September 1823, Quamina and Jack were still eluding the authorities. The colonial newspapers advertised a reward of 1000 guilders for their capture.

This week's URC History Society webinar on the 200th anniversary of the 1823 Demerara Slave uprising, with speakers Revd Dr Michael Jagessar and Prof David Reynolds, is now available to watch on YouTube.  youtu.be/Xa-D3QwyChI?si…

OTD 1823. Jack Gladstone has been captured, but the hunt for his father, Quamina, is still going on. His encampment has been discovered in the Bush, with four huts, corn and rice, and muskets, powder and shot. But also a small library. (See J. Bryant, Account of an Insurrection).

Great to see the full recording of this event at Marlborough House, London, marking the 200th anniversary of the Demerara Uprising and discussing reparations.

Prof Verene Shepherd interviews Charles Gladstone about his recent visit to Guyana on the anniversary of the Demerara uprising. They discuss John Gladstone & Demerara/Jamaica, the massive compensation he received at the abolition of slavery, and the issue of reparations.

New event marking the anniversary of the Demerara uprising: eventbrite.co.uk/e/white-debt-t…

The letter shown here, dated late November 1823, notes that the trial of the missionary, John Smith, is closed but the result not known. Smith’s trial lasted from 13 October to 24 November. Enslaved members of his chapel were called as prosecution witnesses.

New article by T. Burnard & J. Coffey on 'Slave Registers & British Guiana' with analysis of the Demerara revolt on 2 plantations: Success and Bachelors Adventure. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Wilberforce Institute, History at Leicester, The Wilberforce Diaries Project.

Guyana seeks the repatriation of an 1817 letter from the enslaved deacons of Bethel Chapel to the London Missionary Society, a letter dictated by the head deacon Quamina, head carpenter on John Gladstone’s estate, Success, and leader of the 1823 revolt: archive.ph/8OMso

New articles on the leaders of the Demerara revolt in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: oxforddnb.com/newsitem/851/w… David Alston Randy Browne @MarjoleineKars Michael Taylor Thomas Harding Guyana SPEAKS (UK) Wilberforce Institute Guyana Chronicle