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Slavery was one the regrettable parts of American history during much of the 18th and 19th centuries until formally abolished by the 13th Amendment in December of 1865. During this period of slavery, rice, cotton, and sugar plantations worked by slaves were abundant, especially in the south.
Today many of the original plantations and buildings are gone with a remaining few converted to museums. Of the ones preserved, Oak Alley in Vacherie, Louisiana is undoubtedly one of the most scenic. Its distinguishing feature is a double row of 300-year-old oak trees running 800ft (240m) long towards the main house.
This plantation has also been featured in many shows and movies throughout the years, most famously āInterview with the Vampireā from 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
I captured this picture on a nice foggy morning when the sun was piercing through the fog and trees.
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Representation par l'artitiste Hector Charpentier de la libertĆ© conquise suite a la rĆ©volte anti esclavagiste du 22 Mai 1848, imaginĆ©e par des enfants du PrĆŖcheur en MARTINIQUE
Representation by The artist Hector Charpentier of freedom conquered following the anti-slavery revolt of 22 may 1848, imagined by the PrĆŖcheur city's children in MARTINIQUE
This anti-slavery monument facing the Gambia river is situated in Albreda / Juffureh, a village, that is connected to Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States.
The novel "Roots" follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the U.S. down to the author Alex Haley. The novel was followed by a hugely popular television adaptation.
Submitted: 11/06/2016
Rejected: 16/06/2016
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Rejection Reasons by Getty
Subject choice is good but the production value of the execution and overall image quality is not high enough to be competitive. This may relate to various elements, including setting, background detail, styling details, model choice, quality of light, retouching, general attention to detail.
This is an abstract black and white shot inspired by the 4th stanza of D. Solomosās āHymn to Liberty.ā
The Hymnās first two stanzas became Greeceās national anthem.
Here are the last three lines of the inspiring 4th stanza:
āAnd all kept Silent,
Because of being Overshadowed By Fear
And PLAGUED BY SLAVERY.ā
āDionysios SolÅmos
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King Philipp of Macedonia advising his son Alexander (later, the Great) to trust his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle. Aristotle taught that slavery was natural and that human beings came in two varieties: one group able to run their lives independently, the other group in need of help. These others were born slaves and, for their own benefit, were to be led by the free.
7Artisans lens at approx. F11 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
Seen in the Slavery Museum which is part of the Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool. The sculpture (2017) is made from various materials, including rum barrel hoops and the artist is Francois Piquet from Guadeloupe. I do not think that this sculpture needs much explaining. Fuji X100F.
King Philipp of Macedonia advising his son Alexander (later, the Great) to trust his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle. Aristotle taught that slavery was natural and that human beings came in two varieties: one group able to run their lives independently, the other group in need of help. These others were born slaves and, for their own benefit, were to be led by the free.
7Artisans lens at approx. F11 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
Seen in the Slavery Museum which is part of the Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool. The sculpture (2017) is made from various materials, including rum barrel hoops and the artist is Francois Piquet from Guadeloupe. I do not think that this sculpture needs much explaining. Fuji X100F.
A common misconception about human trafficking is that it does not happen in the United States. This is false, as the United States is ranked as one of the worst countries globally for human trafficking. It is estimated that 199,000 incidents occur within the United States every year.
www.amazon.com/Slave-Next-Door-Trafficking-Slavery/dp/052...
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The "St. Lawrence Fortress" was built to repel any attempts on the walls of Duprovnik by forces from Venice. Game of Thrones fans will recognize this as the "Red Keep". This fort is available to rent (for your next party or wedding) for 4000 eu. An inscription above the entrance reads: "Freedom is not to be sold for all the treasures in the world". In 1416 Duprovnik law banned slavery. That's more than 4 centuries before Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves...................
This may appear to be the kind of shot that any tourist would take. It was however the scene of unspeakable cruelty and one of the places where slaves were incarcerated prior to transportation around the world. Over a period of 300 years tens of millions of Africans passed through locations such as this. Africans in collusion with Europeans plied the population with rum and when their victims were incapacitated they were taken as families to the underground dungeons here. In the same way that we should not forget 9/11 we should not forget those who suffered in those times. Nor should we forget the millions who live in slavery today - child workers held in sweat shops, women trapped into the sex industry and those controlled by people-traffickers.
Slavery gwader balochistan.Slaves being brought from africa,mostly eastern coast of africa,especially from zanzibar
Park named after freedom conductor, Harriet Tubman, and abolitionist, Thomas Garrett. My great great great grandfather, Abraham D Shadd, was a shoemaker and a part of Thomas Garrett's underground railroad network in the Baltimore/Wilmington/Philadelphia area.
This is from Wikipedia, regarding Harriet Tubman ...
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. 1820 ā 10 March 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.
Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various owners as a child. Early in her life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight at her, intending to hit another slave. The injury caused disabling seizures, headaches, and powerful visionary and dream activity, and spells of hypersomnia which occurred throughout her entire life. A devout Christian, she ascribed her visions and vivid dreams to premonitions from God.
In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger". Heavy rewards were offered for many of the people she helped bring away, but no one ever knew it was Harriet Tubman who was helping them. When a far-reaching United States Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850, she helped guide fugitives further north into Canada, and helped newly-freed slaves find work.
When the American Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid on the Combahee River, which liberated more than seven hundred slaves. After the war, she retired to the family home in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African-Americans she had helped open years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage and freedom.
And this from Wikipedia, regarding Thomas Garrett ....
Thomas Garrett (August 21, 1789 ā January 25, 1871) was an abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War.
Garrett was born into a prosperous landowning Quaker family on their homestead called "Thornfield" in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The house in which he lived until 1822, which was built around 1800, still stands today in what is now Drexel Hill in Upper Darby Township.
In a family already inclined to abolitionism, Thomas was exceptionally dedicated. When a family servant was kidnapped by men who planned to sell her as a slave in the South, he tracked them down and released her.
A follower of the schismatic Quaker leader Elias Hicks, Garrett split with his orthodox family and moved to Wilmington in the neighboring slave state of Delaware to strike out on his own and pursue his struggle against slavery. He established an iron and hardware business and made it prosper.
As he worked in the iron and hardware business in Wilmington, Garrett openly worked as a Station Master on the last stop of the Underground Railroad in the state. Because he openly defied slave hunters as well as the slave system, Garrett had no need of secret rooms in his house at 227 Shipley Street. The authorities were aware of his activities. However, he was never arrested, but in 1848 he and a fellow Quaker, John Hunn, were tried and found guilty of helping a family of slaves escape. They were both found guilty and fined. Because he was the architect of the escape, Garrett, in particular was fined $4,500. However, a compromised settlement was made and a lien was put on his house until the fine was paid. With the aid of friends Garrett was able to pay the fine and continue in his iron and hardware business and helping runaway slaves to freedom.
Garrett was visited by William Lloyd Garrison, whom he admired greatly. However, they had different views regarding the opposition to slavery. Garrison was a complete non-resistant. He was willing to be a martyr to the abolition of slavery and would not defend himself if attacked physically. Garrett, on the other hand, believed slavery could only be abolished through a civil war and, when he was attacked physically, defended himself by actually subduing his attackers.
Garrett was also a friend and benefactor to the great Underground Railroad Conductor, Harriet Tubman, who passed through his station many times, during which he frequently provided her with money and shoes to continue her missions of conducting runaways from slavery to freedom. Garrett was singularly responsible for assisting Tubman to rescue her parents from the slave system, though both were free people at the time Tubman rescued them (Tubman's father was going to be arrested for secreting runaway slaves in his cabin). He provided Tubman with the money and the means for them to escape.
The number of runaways Garrett assisted has sometimes been exaggerated. However, he himself said he "only helped 2,700" before the Civil War put an end to slavery.
During the war, his house was guarded by the free Negroes of Wilmington. During the passage of the 15th Amendment, giving Negro males the right to vote, the Negroes of Wilmington carried him through the streets in an open barouche with a label, "Our Moses."
Thomas Garrett died on January 25, 1871. His body, on a bier, was borne on the shoulders of freed blacks to the Quaker Meeting House on West 4th Street in Wilmington, where he was interred.
A municipal park in Wilmington is named Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park after the two Underground Railroad agents and friends.
For info about the Harriet Tubman Historical Society, see www.harriettubman.com/index.html
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The federal government in Germany wants to enforce a 'super shutdown' for several weeks, possibly until Easter:
All-day curfew:
That means citizens would no longer be allowed outside their homes, even during the day.
This would make travel and day-trip excursions impossible.
Mandatory home office:
Individual federal states should push for this - insofar as there is really no other way.
Schools and daycare centers:
These would remain closed nationwide under the shutdown variant.
Complete shutdown of transport in Germany:
Local and long-distance public transport could be completely shut down. This would mean that no buses, suburban trains, subways or trains would run and no planes would fly. According to participants in a CDU presidium meeting, however, Merkel rejected a possible suspension of local and long-distance public transport.
FFP2 mask obligation*:
What will be implemented in Bavaria from January 18 could apply throughout Germany.
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Obviously many 'western' images of African people are directly connected to exploitation and slavery. But it is often forgotten that there's also an idealist ideology that sees non-Europeans as good and free and noble, indeed as exemplary. This photo is part of the latter tradition. The insets provide some background.
In 1610 one Barthelomeus Moor (1573-1636) bought a piece of land on what is now the Rokin in Amsterdam and built a house there; the pictured decorative statement was probably added later in the style of Louis XIV. He'd been born in Antwerp and was one of many merchants, often Calvinist, who fled the southern Low Countries in the wake of their fall to the Catholic Habsburgs and the onset of religious persecution. They found religious freedom and independence from monarchy in the Dutch Republic. Around 1600 Antwerp's population had diminshed from about 100,000 to a mere 42,000, and something like 30% of the population of Amsterdam was made up of Flemish Dutchmen. Many of these immigrants were merchant families soon to become wealthy in the prospering northern Low Countries.
No doubt, the choice of Moor or his family for this sculpture was motivated by the meaning of his family name. But added to that are the connotations of freedom, independence and desire for trade imputed to non-Europeans exemplified by that self-conscious, proud 'Moor'. He could well be a Carib or else maybe a Guinean. The inset top right is after a drawing by John Gabriƫl Stedman (1744-1797) of a Carib family. The one on the left is in the first book on African Guinea (more or less present-day Ghana) by Pieter de Maarees around 1602. It depicts Dutch (?) and African merchants and traders. Note the similarity in head dresses of the 'Guineans', the Carib and our 'Moor'.
Asking the question... what if this had really happened in our history on a mass scale?
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I clicked this picture some times ago in a rail station of north Kolkata. The local train was standing in a platform. Two men were talking to each other in the train. Here a pigeon flying high in front of me. This picture told a story, the flying bird symbolize freedom and the two men inside the train symbolize slavery.