As the two walked through the rooms and read the plaques on the wall, the stories got harder and harder to stomach. They read one quote from a female slave and mourning the loss of her children who had been take
I, who at some times spend, at others spare,Divided between carelessness and care. Free Not imprisoned or enslaved. A free man Spare To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance. He will not spare in the day of vengeance. Free Unconstrained by timidity or distrust Spare To...
Governed by consent and possessing or granting civil liberties A free citizenry. Less Unless Free Not subject to arbitrary interference by a government A free press. Less Unless. Free Not enslaved. Less Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or...
During the protest Colston’s statue was pulled down, dragged into the harbour and thrown into the waters just south of a bridge named after the formerly enslaved Bristol resident Pero Jones. Some called this an act of poetic justice (Choksey 2021), others, such as the Office of the ...
which paved the way for capital accumulation and consumption in today's capitalist societies. Theslave tradeenabled European businesses to profit enormously from the forced labor of millions of enslaved Africans on colonial plantations producing sugar, tobacco, cotton, and other commodities sold worldwide...
Ittakes his mother, for whom the status of her son is the materialisation of herown rise from slave estate to the legal wife of a bı ̄z.a ̄ n, to make the bı ̄z.a ̄naware of what had happened, and to free the enslaved son. Indeed falselyenslaved freemen, which...
The mix-up between yams and sweet potatoes originated from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Yams are an important part of West African food traditions. As European slave traders steered their ships across the Middle Passage, they packed yams, along with black-eyed peas, to feed their capt...
enslaved women to repeated surgical experimentation without anaesthetic. Physicians at the time held firmly to the belief that there were vast differences between Black and white bodies; however, when these violent experiments resulted in a surgical method that could successfully close fistulas, this ...
It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left no other nexus between people than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment". It has drowned out the most heavenly ecstacies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of...
Freedom can refer to a state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. After years of struggle, they finally won their freedom. 2 Liberty Broadly speaking, liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). Freedom Freedom...