Assertion: tobago carnival | /r/HasProperty | freed slave
Facets:
value: of the colonial elite
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: After Emancipation (1834), it developed into an outlet and a festival for former indentured laborers and freed slaves who were banned from participating in the masquerade carnival events – derived from European Christian traditions – of the colonial elite, and whose drums and religious observances were also outlawed in the late 19th century.