What did Emancipation Really mean 200 years ago? Belize will celebrate Emancipation Day for the fourth time tomorrow. And while it has been observed for years across the Caribbean - here in Belize we’re still getting used to it - coming to terms with what “emancipation" really meant almost 200 years ago. Like so much that came down from the slave masters - emancipation itself was a cruel sham. Tonight, with archival images posted as a “story map” on the ARC GIS website by NICH - we look at the r