Caesar Solomon

 MaaNgala Oni Shankalla

November 10, 2021  · 

Caesar Solomon is likely the grandfather of my grandmother Rachael Campbell. Almost every occasion I have seen his name it is written as Solomon Caesar. That reality is similar to copycats parroting the misinformation of shareholders and villages. The plantations were purchased as shares. The purchasers are by individuals owning of complete shares and groups of our people as joint owners of shares. The organ of the colonial government - the Official Gazette of British Guiana – describes the purchases as being made by shareholders and joint-proprietors of the amount of shares of the said plantation. Hence the colonial government referred to the activity as similar to that of a corporation. 

Please also note other publications list Pollidore Bentick among the common error of 83 names. Please consult the Official Gazette of British Guiana, 1854 for a more accurate understanding of the truth and reality.  Pay attention to the pronouncements of the colonial administration. Also check the partitioning of lands such as July 26, 1856 page 771. There are useful information respecting forgotten relatives, 

It’s long overdue to give our social history professors, commentators, descendants of people enslaved in Berbice, Demerary and Essequebo, and family historians the failing grades they all deserve on the subject of the purchasing of plantations.  The context is shares, shareholders and joint-proprietors of plantations. The roles of missionaries in the purchases must be closely scrutinized. The missionaries pacified our people, the missionaries encouraged our ancestors to waste their four years of labour they exchanged for access to Rothschild money supply by purchasing abandoned estates and/or plantations, please note there were several communities of runaway slaves on the banks of rivers and creeks. There was one community at Mahaica as late as the early 1830s. The enslaved should have abandoned the estates and plantations completely. They ought to have settled on crown lands further away from the Europeans like the so-called indigenous people. The enslaved should have freed themselves from European constructs. The Europeans including the missionaries are the greatest beneficiaries of the purchasing of plantations November 1839 - December 31, 1852. The churches and their properties in the communities; are the greatest reminders of the deception; the missionaries practiced against the enslaved and their descendants. 

Current generations must open their third eyes. Current generations must wake up.  Current generations must look beyond the slave curtain. Current generations must understand who they were before super predators violated our ancestors are who they really are as humans, Current generations must take the veils of the evil which enslaves our people.  Current generations must assess the deceit, greed and treachery of the Europeans against our representation and ourselves. Current generations must make tangible efforts to right those wrongs. Current generations must advocate reparatory justice for our ancestors at home known as Africa and abroad called Guyana and so on.