Posted on 11/20/2020 3:22:37 PM PST by artichokegrower
Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can neither be visited nor even seen.
A virtual memorial of ribbons on maps of the Atlantic deep seabed could honor the estimated 1.8 million Africans who died at sea during the trans-oceanic slave trade, said a proposal published this month in the Journal of Marine Policy.
“It would be on a map … they can’t visit it,” said Phillip Turner, a science policy consultant who worked on the paper as a doctoral student at Duke University in North Carolina.
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Oh great now the United States is getting lectured to about human rights by Sierra Leon. Anyhow the 300 year time line on the map is interesting. The percentage of slaves going to North America during this period was very small. The biggest number going to Brazil.
Gonna add the routes to the Middle East, and around Africa?
““It would be on a map … they can’t visit it,”
then why make it? Quit your drama.
Sierra Leone is just trying to get ahead on the possible Bidet Gravy Train because it would grovel to every 3rd world shythole and write big checks. Pretty smart on their part.
What about the victims of Pompeii, Tambora, Krakatoa, Pinatubo, Mt. St. Helens, etc.? A huge red cross above every volcano?
And of course, giant tsunami ribbons near Sumatra, Fukushima, etc.?
Oh no, Mother Nature doesn’t count, she’s not really a murderer.
Then what about Holodomor ribbons over Ukraine?
And a giant hammers-and-sickles over the entire territories of Red China, Cambodia, Cuba, Venezuela, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Germany?
F them
“They” are not there. These folks know nothing about what happens to bodies that get dumped in the middle of the ocean.
Theren is;
1. Water pressure as you sink
2. There are predatory species in those waters.
3. If you make it to the bottom, there are species that would feed on you there, too.
Lastly, oceanic maps are made for reasons more, than to locate supposed memorials!!
Sierra Leon was the British version of Liberia, i.e. a place to send freed Africans back to Africa. Seems that many that the British Army took with them after the Revolution tired of Canadian winters. Have no idea how the newcomers treated the local natives. If it was like Liberia, not very well.
And I imagine that many in Sierra Leon died much more violent deaths during their recent civil war than George Floyd, including the many child soldiers.
And points showing the tribes who captured and sold the other tribes??
Odd that they should complain.
The bigwigs along the Ivory Coast are descendants of the people who got rich selling their fellow human beings to the blue-eyed devils.
The map should also include the African on African incursions into deep veldt to produce tribal prisoners; also every slave ship should be depicted and enumerated with the name of every true owner.
If they were honest, the journey would begin in the Congo Basin and non-coastal areas in West Africa as the slave trade started with blacks enslaving other blacks to sell them off to make a lot of bling-bling.
We live in The Age of Futile Gestures.
That would be in the small African nation of Benin, formerly the Kingdom of Dahomey. Their Kings acquired immense wealth by conquering weaker neighboring tribes for the sole purpose of selling them as slaves to the huge slave markets in East Asia, as well as to African markets (yes, many areas of Africa enslaved fellow Africans for their own use & not just to resell elsewhere), as well as to North and South America.
As they grew richer, they were able to buy Western weapons (guns) & technology (eg iron prison bars), which made their job easier.
Amplify, my ass! Slave trade victims are last in the long line of victims through the ages...
Why are we beating ourselves, (self flagellation) over these victims if we don’t remember the slaves of all civilizations in earlier history?
We do not need to be lectured to by a representative of Sierra Leone! Let him name a port in his country after the victims.
GEORGE FLOYD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SIERRA LEONE, OR SLAVERY.
His “tragedy” was his own damn fault!
Surely designed to be ribbons of guilt of the white man,, in reality they would be ribbons of shame for the African kings who sold their own people for export.
Do the europeans who were forceably kidnapped and sold to African slavers get a ribbon? Their circumstances are a bit different from the already enslaved from Africa. How about a ribbon across the Sahara to highlight the slave caravans? We could add ribbons for the slaves in China or Japan or Indonesia, or the slaves amongst indigenous indian tribes of North and South America pre-colonialism. Pretty soon, it will just be a map of ribbons, continents obliterated by the history of instances of world-wide slavery. That only America and England fought to end.
The bigwigs along the Ivory Coast are descendants of the people who got rich selling their fellow human beings to the blue-eyed devils.
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