By James G Rose

(Trevor Burnard, Hearing Slaves Speak, UK : The Caribbean Press, 2010. – 194p.)

In accordance with the United Nations Declaration, Guyana has joined with the rest of the world in declaring 2011 as The International Year for People of African Descent.  An additional set of titles in the Guyana Classics Series edited by David Dabydeen has been released by the Caribbean Press, and one of the books is Hearing Slaves Speak, which has been dedicated to and specially published to mark this year.  We present an extensively edited review of this work by James G Rose, Guyana’s Director of Culture, who is a historian.

Hearing Slaves Speak, compiled by Trevor Burnard, is the latest in the line of books published by the Caribbean Press and is particularly launched to coincide with and as an integral part of the national commemoration…..