I saw a programme on UK television tonight C4 entitled The Last Slave http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/a-b/britains_slave_trade.html - I found it very interesting, not least because as the man on the documentary kept saying ''there is no black and white'' to the truth.
He researched into his past with the aid of his grandfather's diaries, a trip to Jamaica & a visit to a historian in central London & found he had to come to terms with some rather uncomfortable truths about the slave trade and human behaviour in general i.e. that black people sold black people to slave traders etc., that most of the wealth of 17th and 18th century England had relied heavily on the slave trade and that people in Jamaica inspite of it, thought that the British Empire had left somethings behind that were to be desired - the highlight of the documentary was when this black man in search of his roots so to speak came face to face with a white owner of a surviving sugar plantation!
2007-03-11
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