Slaver og slavehandel. 


271106, Independent, Geneviève Roberts, British success built on 'misery and suffocation' of slave boats. In 1829, Reverend Walsh patrolled the seas off the coast of Africa on behalf of the British government, enforcing the law prohibiting the slave trade passed two decades earlier in 1807. He confiscated slave ships and sent their prisoners back to Africa. After boarding the ship bound for Brazil, Reverent Walsh wrote: "The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and [were] stowed so close there was no possibility of their lying down or changing their position by night or day...Some 562 men, women and children made up the human cargo of the slave ship Feroz. Crammed beneath grate-covered hatchways between the decks, left to stew amid the stench of faeces and rotting bodies, each bore the mark of their owner, branded on their skin with a red-hot iron.

Yet before abolition in 1807, the "misery and suffocation" endured on board those ships was widely ignored by Britain. Trading in African slaves allowed Britain to become a world economic power and financing the Industrial Revolution. 

En af de befriede amerikanske slaver, Frederick Douglass, mindes med en hjemmeside. Han holdt en "grundlovstale" 5 July 1852 Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?".

270307, Guardian, "You, the Queen, should be ashamed !". En højtidelig seance i Westminster Abbey, med dronningen, Prins Philip, parret Blair o.s.v. til minde om Englands afskaffelse af slavehandelen blev afbrudt af Toyin Agbetu fra den afrikanske organisation for menneskelige rettigheder, Ligali. Godt akuldret Agbeti !

220307, Daily Mail, How did the real hero of the anti-slavery movement get airbrushed out of history? Fejringen i England af 200 året for afskaffelsen af slavehandlen har være centreret omkring parlamentsmedlemmet William Wilberforce. Men kraftværket bag bevægelsen for afskaffelsen var Thomas Clarkson, som artiklen handler om. Det britiske parlament afskaffede slavehandlen 25. marts 1807.

260307, BBC, Free at Last. Mellem det 15. og det 19. århundrede tog man op mod 15 millioner slaver fra Afrika. Udsendelsen handler om den afrikanske modstand.

130807, Independent, Emily Dugan, Britain's 'invisible army' of African slaves. "Brought into the country under false identities and tricked into leaving their families with the promise of an education and a better future, hundreds of African children are being trafficked into the UK for a life of servitude, according to human rights campaigners...Christine Beddoe, director of Ecpat, a coalition of charities dealing with child trafficking...said the charity had found "a culture of disbelief in the offices looking at asylum claims", that caused escaped child slaves to be treated as illegal immigrants rather than unwitting, isolated victims."






Orla Jordal, 2007

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