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For 125 years on this plinth stood the statue of Edward Colston a Bristol born merchant, slave trader, Tory MP and philantropist. On 7 June 2020 during a protest following the death of George Floyd the statue was toppled and pushed into Bristol Harbour.
In 1809 Henry Cranke Andrews (<1797-1830) made a marvellous drawing of this heath. It was done presumably from the plant in the private garden of George Hibbert (1757-1837) at Clapham (London). Hibbert was an amateur botanist and he had an enormous collection of plants from all over the world. He was able to make that collection from the money he earned through his activities as a slave trader (he was a leading politician in England against abolition). In 1798/9 he sent Scotsman James Niven (1776-1827) to South Africa to collect plants for him. There Niven came upon our Erica which he duly sent to his employer.
A most elaborate wrought iron fence. Featuring many spirals and small rosettes also made of wrought iron. There was a lot of history made here, I have posted a couple of photos that speak to that on my photostream.
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Theme: "Look Through The Fence"
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In an alternative imagining of the 19th century slave trade, the white man is the slave of the black slave trader.
Sometimes seeing things differently helps us SEE things differently.
Brand new black and white edit with the title borrowed from a line from Redemption Song by Bob Marley.
Story behind this shoot:
I did the colour versions of this shoot a few years ago. They went viral and were widely acclaimed as impactful and thought provoking after being picked up by a famous Black American influencer on Instagram. The series of 6 of these shots had before this been accepted for a UK Nationwide touring exhibition - to be pulled at the last minute by those in charge as it was considered it may be too "distressing for school children" to see these (even though it was a normal exhibition for all the public who would mainly be adults anyway).
Seeing the usual images of black people suffering in chains in the schoolbooks is apparently okay, but it is not good for kids to see things differently, or to perish the thought to make the next generation actually have to THINK and be impacted ... and if they are distressed for a little while by the reality then so be it, as that's how change happens by hearts and minds being impacted as slavery and racism and inequality based on race is distressing. Whatever the race of the perpetrator and victim.
I - and my two awesome models here PJ Walker and Horace Silver - am proud that these images are considered powerful enough to impact young minds. And maybe a few old ones.
A memorial mural off Redcliffe Parade in central Bristol which commemorates those sad individuals captured in the slave trade many years ago.
Setting sun over Dakar, the Capital of Senegal taken from Gorée island. Gorée is a tiny, car-free island off the coast of Dakar, in Senegal. It’s known for its role in the 15th- to 19th-century Atlantic slave trade. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. A beautiful island with a horrific history.
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This is the site of an ancient place of worship which was destroyed by the building of Cape Coast Castle and reclaimed once the castle ceased to be used for the storage of slaves prior to transportation. The wall is the wall built to block off the tunnel along which the slaves were led to be loaded onto ships. This was to finally put a stop to the slave trade having been abolished in Britain but which continued until the wall was built. Offerings of alcohol, food, and valuables can be seen on what is still an active alter to this day.
This 18th century structure is generally purported to be a former businessplace of the mysterious Lafitte brothers, who led a pirate/privateering/slavetrading racket in Lousiana and the Caribbean in the early 19th century. The building's real history is obscure, but it does appear to be one of, if not the oldest building in the city. Today it is one of countless bars on the notorious Bourbon Street, a famous tourist draw but not a place Mrs. Orca and I were tempted to linger. Laffite's Blacksmith Shop, Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Lousiana,
Well, it can't be helped. I'm a day or so early with this Orange posting. Day after tomorrow is KIng's Day. The birthday is then celebrated here of His Majesty Willem-Alexander, by the Grace of God, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, etc. etc. etc. Orange will be the color of choice and exuberance, and you won't be able to miss it anywhere in The Netherlands.
In an earlier posting I've given the background of the scientific name of Dryas iulia because there's lots of misinformation about it: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/5455277749/in/photolis.... Allow me now to add something more.
Johan Christian Fabricius (1745-1808), great Danish entomologist who first described our Butterfly, himself never traveled very far. But he had many friends and acquaintances who did. One of these was intrepid and versatile Julius Philip Benjamin von Rohr (1735-1793). Rohr was a Prussian in Danish service, and he started out as a surveyor. He was sent to the Danish West Indies - now the US Virgin Islands - as an engineer of sorts, but soon also became a formidable plant collector and naturalist, sending his finds back to anyone who'd have them in Europe (especially in England and in Denmark). Moreover, he was also interested in the economic aspects of (colonial) plantation agriculture especially in view of the recent end of Danish slave trading across the Atlantic. 1793 saw him on his way to Danish slaving forts on the West Coast of Africa in order to help transform them into a plantation economy. He died soon after his arrival. But he'd already sent Fabricius his exemplar of what that great entomologist called a bit drearily 'Papilio julia' (1775). Fabricius notes down Rohr's name diligently next to his description with the remark: 'Habitat in America' (the Butterfly, that is). Happily around 1805 Jakob Hübner (1761-1826) devised the name 'Dryas', as I wrote in my earlier posting.
Wilberforce House is the birthplace of William Wilberforce, famous campaigner against the slave trade. ,This Shot was taken earlier this Year,
A love the way they carry the babies like this out in Africa. Gorée is a tiny, car-free island off the coast of Dakar, in Senegal. It’s known for its role in the 15th- to 19th-century Atlantic slave trade. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. A beautiful island with a horrific history.
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12 Forth Street, Edinburgh
This is one of the many Edinburgh properties listed in the records of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership where a previous owner's family in the early 19th Century made a claim for compensation in respect of the emancipation of slaves in Jamaica.
In 1833, Britain emancipated its enslaved people and paid out the equivalent of £17bn in compensation money - paid to the slave owners, not the former enslaved people - on the grounds that this was compensation to slave-owners for 'loss of human property'.
Apparently Scottish slave ownership was higher than in any other part of the UK and its not without connection that between 1760 and 1830 the Scottish economy grew from one of the weakest in Europe to become one of the most powerful.
This is one of the chains that supported the draw bridge at the Elmina Castle. After slaves were marched into the castle the these chains will be drawn raise the bridge, making it impossible for any slave to run out. The drawbridge also served as a defence system for the moments when other European armies attacked.
24 Forth Street, Edinburgh
This is one of the many Edinburgh properties listed in the records of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership where a previous owner's family in the early 19th Century made a claim for compensation in respect of the emancipation of slaves in Jamaica.
In 1833, Britain emancipated its enslaved people and paid out the equivalent of £17bn in compensation money - paid to the slave owners, not the former enslaved people - on the grounds that this was compensation to slave-owners for 'loss of human property'.
Apparently Scottish slave ownership was higher than in any other part of the UK and its not without connection that between 1760 and 1830 the Scottish economy grew from one of the weakest in Europe to become one of the most powerful.
Built from the profits of years of direct, active involvement in the Rhode Island slave trade. See photo to the right, just before this photo.
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This photograph was taken during our stay on the Caribbean island of Bonaire in 2009. From a website: In 1633, the Dutch, having lost the island of St. Maarten to the Spanish, retaliated by capturing Curacao, Bonaire, and Aruba. While Curacao emerged as a center of the slave trade, Bonaire became a plantation of the Dutch West India Company. A small number of African slaves were put to work cultivating dyewood and maize and harvesting solar salt around Blue Pan. They were joined by the few remaining Indians and convicts. Slave quarters, rising no higher than a man's waist and built entirely of stone, still stand in the area around Rincon and along the saltpans as a grim reminder of Bonaire's repressive past.
this business housed a slave trader for a short season and the limestone block on the corner was used as a slave auction block. The stone remains as a reminder of the inhuman practice which took place in our nation.
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A Gambian woman in Albreda, on the north banks of the Gambia river, Jan 25, 2017. The riverside hamlet and its neighbouring village Juffure are best known as the home of Kuntah Kinte, the star character of the 1977 hit television series Roots. The number of Gambians migrants fleeing their country for Europe has reached record levels in recent years. The number who reached Italy increased 30-fold from
He was a merchant who profited from trading slaves. Would I have taken the picture had I known? Cemiterio de Agramonte, Porto, Portugal.