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| Text on Button | Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds - Bob Marley |
| Image Description | Black text over a red, yellow and green striped background and next to a black and white photograph of Bob Marley's head and shoulders. |
| Curl Text | ROBERT NESTA MARLEY (1945-1981) DONNELY/COLT BUTTONS BOX 188 HAMPTON, CT 06247 |
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| Additional Information | Bob Marley and the Wailer’s “Redemption Song,” which contained the lyrics “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds,” appeared on Uprising, the band’s 1980 album. Its lyrics spoke of a person taken into slavery who was fighting for physical and mental freedom from his oppressor. The lyrics to the song were based off of a speech given by Jamaican civil rights activist Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in 1937. The speech was published in The Black Man: A Monthly Magazine of Negro Thought and Opinion. |
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MacDougall, P. (2000). Marcus Garvey and Nova Scotia: Birth of a Movement, Birth of a Religion, Birth of a Church. Shunpiking Magazine Black History & African Heritage Supplement. February/March, 2000, Volume 5, Number 32. Retrieved from http://www.shunpiking.org/bhs/Marcus-gar.htm. Tattrie, J. (2017 February 3). The African Nova Scotia Roots of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-african-nova-scot… Top 20 Political Songs: Redemption Song 1980 Bob Marley and the Wailers. (2010 March). New Statesman America. Retrieved from https://www.newstatesman.com/music/2010/03/bob-marley-redemption-song |
| Catalog ID | MU0481 |