To honour those who fought to end the Middle Passage and celebrate the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Trade in Africans, the Government of Jamaica established the Jamaica National Bicentenary Planning Committee (JNBPC), with a mandate to:
Our mandate is to:
- Educate the nation about the TTA and the process of abolition, from the perspective of the Caribbean.
- Plan appropriate and meaningful island-wide events to mark this important milestone in the history and experience of the nation and ensure that some plans are sustainable.
- Conduct research that will provide the evidence that Jamaica needs to advance its case for reparation from Europe especially Britain.
- Stress the implications of ending the trade in Africans and how it contributed to creating the Jamaican identity; an identity grounded in the African past.
- Examine the impact of the TTA and slavery on the region.
- Honour those like Marcus Garvey who carried on the struggle for mental liberation from the legacies of slavery.
- Reestablish and rekindle links with the African continent
