Interesting academic project here about the 10 million Africans removed from their homelands to serve as slaves in the Americas, which is being co-ordinated from Queen's University in Belfast.
The After Slavery Project states: "If the study of the past has any value in helping us to understand the present, or in guiding us in trying to shape the future, then there can be few chapters in the American experience that speak to us more powerfully than the crucial years during which four million former slaves tried to make something out of freedom."
Our photograph shows black slaves celebrating empancipation on Edisto Island.
And I see a new comic book publisher Rí Rá has emerged in Co Clare of all places, go n-éirí leo.
4 comments:
The After Slavery Project at Queens should be focusing attention on the brutal child slavery in Haiti today known as the "restavecs."
Queens should also be discussing the many thousands of Irish men, women, and children kidnapped and sold into slavery into the Americas by Oliver Cromwell.
But the restavec system is in the here and now and is absolutely horrendous. It is a crime against black children in the extreme.
Where is Queens University?
Calm down westie. Have a look at the site (www.afterslavery.com) before you make too many assumptions. The project is based at Queen's, and run by a historian who (so I hear) would be completely sympathetic to your concerns.
The new comic publisher from County Clare, Aidan Courtney, got his start with Lá as our cartoonist....he provided a front page cartoon one day a week...
this blog also has some interesting stories having to do with ethnicity http://laurenperez.blogspot.com/
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