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Sail Away
Randy Newman
“Sail Away” is representative of Newman’s trademark unconventional and clever approach to songwriting: it takes the form of a “come on” or a “pitch” from an American slave trader to potential slaves. The slaver attempts to convince his listeners to climb aboard his ship and “sail away” with him to America, which he portrays as a land of happiness and plenty.
The lyrics contain several subtle references to the extreme ideological dichotomy going on in America at the time of the slave trade. For example, the slaver sings “In America, every man is free,” emphasizing the American ideal of liberty. However, after a caesura he quickly concludes that sentence with “to take care of his home and his family,” implying that every man in fact isn’t “free” in every sense of the word.
In America you'll get food to eat
Won't have to run through the jungle
And scuff up your feet
You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It's great to be an American
Ain't no lions or tigers ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Everybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard little wog sail away with me
Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
In America every man is free
To take care of his home and his family
You'll be as happy as a monkey in a monkey tree
You're all gonna be an American
Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
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7 Days of shooting
Week #38
Low saturation
Unusual point of view
ODT: Dutch angle
Gun captured at Lagos, Bight of Benin, Africa, Quadrangle Portsmouth Dockyard, photographer unknown, State Library of New South Wales.
On far right - Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce, Commodore of the West Africa Squadron who negotiated and signed the Treaty between Great Britain and Lagos of 1 January 1852.
From Wikipedia - In 1849, Britain appointed John Beecroft Consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, a position he held (along with his governorship of Fernando Po) until his death in 1854. At the time of Beecroft's appointment, the Kingdom of Lagos (under Oba Kosoko) was in the western part of the Consulate of the Bights of Benin and Biafra and was a key slave trading port. In 1851 and with pressure from liberated slaves who now wielded political and business influence, Britain intervened in Lagos in what is now known as the Bombardment of Lagos or Capture of Lagos resulting in the installation of Oba Akitoye and the ouster of Oba Kosoko. Oba Akitoye then signed the Treaty between Great Britain and Lagos abolishing slavery. The signing of the 1852 treaty ushered in the Consular Period in Lagos' history wherein Britain provided military protection for Lagos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos
Taken inside of a former Slave Market in Stone Town, Zanzibar. It was on the grounds of an Anglican Church and was at one point in time the largest slave market in all of Zanzibar. Today the church's altar is located in the exact spot where the main whipping post of the market used to be.
Location: Stone Town, Zanzibar.
Description: For many years, Stone Town was a major centre for the slave trade. Slaves would be shipped in from mainland Africa and traded with merchants and porters from the middle east. Before they were shipped out, the slaves were kept here for several days without food or water, chained in a dark cell approximately the size that you can see here.
General atrocities like – whipping, dragging, rape, being held in chains, etc. were the order of the day and shown to every Englishman who visited the Slave Market. In 1873 the English abolished the market, but signs persisted until 1899 when Zanzibar became a British Protectorate.
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Equipment: Nikon D300 (Sigma 10-20mm)
Date: August 2008
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