Thank you sir for this great airale view of my home town. You swung enough on Mount Pleasant street where I was able to pick out he hose that my Aunt and Uncle lived in for years. I was also very happy to see the cemetery down from holy Redeemer church. My dad's parents are buried there with my infant sister who died in 1945. I lived on Canought Street. My older siblings went to Sydney Academy and we were members of Holy Redeemer Church. Again thank you
Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" was born in Whitney Pier. Garvey’s words would later be reborn in Marley’s “Redemption Song”. The singer/songwriter was born in the same area of Jamaica as Garvey and probably studied his work. When Marley learned he was dying of cancer in the late 1970s, he turned to Garvey for inspiration for what would be his last song. Tattrie says Marley likely read Garvey’s Sydney speech in Black Man magazine, and was clearly struck by the emancipation line. “For Marley, the solution was mental emancipation. So he wrote ‘Redemption Song’, and the focal point is a near-direct quote of Garvey’s Whitney Pier, Cape Breton Island speech: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery/none but ourselves can free our minds
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Thank you sir for this great airale view of my home town. You swung enough on Mount Pleasant street where I was able to pick out he hose that my Aunt and Uncle lived in for years. I was also very happy to see the cemetery down from holy Redeemer church. My dad's parents are buried there with my infant sister who died in 1945. I lived on Canought Street. My older siblings went to Sydney Academy and we were members of Holy Redeemer Church. Again thank you
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Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" was born in Whitney Pier. Garvey’s words would later be reborn in Marley’s “Redemption Song”. The singer/songwriter was born in the same area of Jamaica as Garvey and probably studied his work. When Marley learned he was dying of cancer in the late 1970s, he turned to Garvey for inspiration for what would be his last song. Tattrie says Marley likely read Garvey’s Sydney speech in Black Man magazine, and was clearly struck by the emancipation line.
“For Marley, the solution was mental emancipation. So he wrote ‘Redemption Song’, and the focal point is a near-direct quote of Garvey’s Whitney Pier, Cape Breton Island speech: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery/none but ourselves can free our minds