Good to see more folk acknowledging that Waitangi Day should also be recognised as NZ's Emancipation Day.
Posted on the 6th, by David Farrar, was this:
Today we celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi – a day which should be called Emancipation Day. ....
We should celebrate 6 February 1840 as the day slavery was made illegal in New Zealand and tens of thousands of Maori slaves gained the rights of British citizens.
Yes, we should. After all, as someone has been saying for a while now:
It’s NZ’s own Emancipation Proclamation!
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