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I've been digging in my archives again and I found this shot that I took in July 2008... at the Slave Pit in Stone Town... on the island of Zanzibar.
This concrete monument was built at Zanzibar's former slave market site. This was the location of the world's last open slave market and a very notorious place, where slaves from East and Central Africa regions were bought and sold. The trade in men, women and children was stopped by decree from the Sultan of Zanziber One June 1873, following the appeal made by Dr. David Livingston in 1857. The Cathedral Church of Christ was built by Bishop Edward Steere in 1874, and now stands exactly on the site of the former slave market and the high altar marks the location of the old whipping post!
I haven't had much time to go out shooting this past week... nor for Flickr... but I'll do my best to catch up on all your streams this weekend.
Have a great weekend everyone!!
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f9, with a 1/80th second exposure.
I wanna make your heartbeat
Run like rollercoasters
I wanna be a good boy
I wanna be a gangster
'Cause you can be the beauty
And I could be the monster
Slave Leia from the first annual Long Beach Comic Con (LBCC). The Long Beach Comic Con 2009 ran from October 2 through October 4 at the Long Beach Convention center in Long Beach, California.
2007 is the 200th anniversary of the Act of Abolition that outlawed the transportation of slaves by British ships and within the British Empire.. This is a photocollage with a print of the layout of the bow end of a slave ship, interlayered and contrasted with smiling African faces. This is best viewed large - 800 x 1678 pixels (click on 'all sizes' icon above).
]The original image is 4215 x 8839 pixels. Prints of this are available at any size or resolution - please contact me at mail@avonnova.co.uk.]
The image from which this is an extract, augmented to create the photocollage you see here, is the subject of a recent comment in The Friend, the Magazine of the Quakers, or the religious Society of Friends, for October 2010. I quote:
An image of evil. Early Quakers rarely hung pictures in their homes, but this image became an exception in the late 18th century. 'Stowage of the British slave ship "Brookes" under the regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788' was a landmark image in the history of political propaganda, devised not by an artist but by a campaign group, and has been described as 'the most politically influential picture ever made'.
Produced in April 1789 by Thomas Clarkson and the Quaker dominated Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the printer was the Quaker James Phillips. The campaign to end the slave trade was begun by Quakers who saw it as a violation of their fundamental belief in the equality of all: an incontestable evil.
The diagram was not a record of fact. It was a hypothetical projection. The Plymouth branch of the Committee had discovered the plan of a loaded ship: a privy Council enquiry into the slave trade had measured the internal dimensions of a number of vessels and published the results.
The Committee chose a Liverpool slaver, Brookes, as an example and developed a statistical visualisation, demonstrating how the ship's legally-permitted number of captives, 454, might be accommodated. The diagram stuck to the letter of the law. In fact, the Brookes was known to have carried 609 captives on a previous voyage.
The diagram embodied the mindset of the slave trader. The image is a clinical, cold demonstration of the efficient use of space: the slavers called it 'tight-packed'. Slaves were placed like commodities and the diagram resembles the layout of a mass grave. The Quakers of the time acted on their belief that 'there is that of God in everyone'. The slave trade in Britain was ended with the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act on 25th March 1807.
This is the old "Barker Slave Quarters," the slave housing for the long-gone Kirkpatrick mansion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirkpatrick_House_Cahaba.jpg) in Old Cahawba. The mansion burned in the 1930s. This two-story brick slave houses still stands, and is WAY more elaborate and elegant than your typical slave quarters, rumor being that Mr. Kirkpatrick wanted everything on his estate to be grander than others.
Cahawba was the old capital of Alabama...."In 1866, the county seat was moved to nearby Selma, within the decade following the move, there were few families left in Cahaba. In time, Freedmen (former slaves) moved into the vacant town and used the city blocks for farming. Cahaba became a community of former slaves, but eventually, these citizens relocated, too. Sometime during the late 1800s, a Freedman purchased the town for 500 dollars. He demolished the brick structures and sold the building materials to customers in Selma and downriver in Mobile. By 1900, there were few structures left standing and only a very few survived through the Depression Era."