"No Money No Crop"

Shackled hands at centre of image. Foreground with multiple figures in-between. female figure at left and male figure at right of hands, both holding a staff. Multiple buildings including a church, and mill at centre. At ULC figure with broken shackles and raised fists. At URC figure with cricket bat. Two profiles at top with buildings and flag atop a pole at centre. Handwritten description by artist is attached to drawing. Text as follows: Broken chains burst asunder to the lick & lock up done wid crowd rejoicing in their freedom - their emancipation from slavery. Two children lead the band. In the background are slave huts, sugar fields windmill, Sugar factory. Further up the road is a chattel village. Women eventually leave the fields to trek to Markey with the provisions & vegetables. On the left and right bottom a man and woman contemplate this newfound freedom amid the sugar canes. Rising to the left is a fiery rebellion of the Bussa uprising which kinda started it going. To the right a more contemporary hero is Sir Garfield Sobers who bestrides the new Kensington (World Cup) oval like a Colossus. Rising from it all the Sharon Moravian Church one of the first churches that admitted slaves to worship - in their new found freedom - men and women praise the Lord. Top and Central the seat of Parliament the public buildings flanked by Sir Grantley Adams and Errol Barrow - Today is a funny night the 1937 uprising is to the right - to the left is a more peaceful unionized demonstration NO MONEY NO CROP. "No Money No Crop" is an ink and watercolour sketch for Emancipation, one of the two murals commissioned by the Parliament of Barbados for the National Heroes Gallery and Parliament Museum. When the sketch was donated by Coral Bernadine to the Barbados National Art Gallery in 2008, she included a handwritten description of the work: "Broken chains burst asunder to the lick & lock up done wide crowd rejoicing in their freedom - their emancipation from slavery. Two children lead the band. In the background are slave huts, sugar fields windmill, Sugar factory. Further up the road is a chattle village. Women eventually leave the fields to trek to Market with the provisions & vegetables. On the left and right bottom a man and woman contemplate this new found freedom amid the sugar canes. Rising to the left is a fiery rebellion of the Bussa uprising which kinda started it going. To the right a more contemporary hero is Sir Garfield Sobers who bestrides the new Kensington (World Cup) oval like a Colossus. Rising from it all the Sharon Moravian Church one of the first churches that admitted slaves to worship - in their new found freedom - men and women praise the Lord. Top and Central the seat of Parliament the public buildings flanked by Sir Grantley Adams and Errol Barrow - Today is a funny night the 1937 uprising is to the right - to the left is a more peaceful unionized demonstration NO MONEY NO CROP."