Two days ago Trinidad and Tobago observ-ed a national holiday. It was Shouter Baptist Liberation Day celebrated annually on March 30 to mark the anniversary of the day when the ban on Shouter Baptist worship in Trinidad was lifted. This day was declared a public holiday in 1996, but it is also the commemoration of a historic fight for freedom of worship and for traditional culture in the Caribbean.
This struggle and its cultural implications have also been immortalized in literature. At least two works treat the subject in fictionalised fashion. The first is actually two works: Earl Lovelace
