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Tango01 | 16 Jul 2015 3:31 p.m. PST |
… buried: now its scale can be revealed. "The past has a disconcerting habit of bursting, uninvited and unwelcome, into the present. This year history gate-crashed modern America in the form of a 150-year-old document: a few sheets of paper that compelled Hollywood actor Ben Affleck to issue a public apology and forced the highly regarded US public service broadcaster PBS to launch an internal investigation. The document, which emerged during the production of Finding Your Roots, a celebrity genealogy show, is neither unique nor unusual. It is one of thousands that record the primal wound of the American republic – slavery. It lists the names of 24 slaves, men and women, who in 1858 were owned by Benjamin L Cole, Affleck's great-great-great-grandfather. When this uncomfortable fact came to light, Affleck asked the show's producers to conceal his family's links to slavery. Internal emails discussing the programme were later published by WikiLeaks, forcing Affleck to admit in a Facebook post: "I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed." It was precisely because slaves were reduced to property that they appear so regularly in historic documents, both in the US and in Britain. As property, slaves were listed in plantation accounts and itemised in inventories. They were recorded for tax reasons and detailed alongside other transferable goods on the pages of thousands of wills. Few historical documents cut to the reality of slavery more than lists of names written alongside monetary values. It is now almost two decades since I had my first encounter with British plantation records, and I still feel a surge of emotion when I come across entries for slave children who, at only a few months old, have been ascribed a value in sterling; the sale of children and the separation of families was among the most bitterly resented aspects of an inhuman system…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
morrigan | 16 Jul 2015 8:14 p.m. PST |
Slavery comes in many forms. My great grandmother, a white woman, was a servant in a rich British household. The services required of her by the "master" of the house didn't stop at housework. I'm not expecting an apology any time soon. |
duncanh | 17 Jul 2015 11:00 a.m. PST |
In breaking news, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, water is wet. later, before Newton formulated the laws, people floated around as gravity was a concept. |
gunnerphil | 18 Jul 2015 6:47 a.m. PST |
Is there a country that at some point in it's history did not have slaves? |
vtsaogames | 18 Jul 2015 7:07 a.m. PST |
Euphemisms: "West India trader" and "West India planter" hide slave wealth just as "China trade" hides opium dealing wealth. Some Frenchman said "behind every great fortune, a great crime" or something like that. |
Hohenlinden | 19 Jul 2015 2:19 a.m. PST |
That 'Some Frenchman' was Honoré de Balzac! |
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