Under the umbrella of The SANKOFA PILGRIMAGE TO BARBADOS, the trip is being organized by Ambassador Llewellyn Witherspoon in collaboration with the Barbadian government, 159 years after the forebears departed Barbados for Liberia. John Prince Porte emigrated from Barbados to Liberia in the mid-1860s. It also included references to several important research work on the Barbados – Liberia bilateral agreement conducted over the years, which enabled the 1865 emigration. The history of the relationship between Liberia, Barbados, and Crozierville should be preserved; it needs to be unearthed and celebrated. The family was one of about 50 that comprised what remains the only organized emigration of Barbadians to Liberia, indeed Africa.

Source: Front Page Africa May 06, 2023 18:48 UTC