memorialsto the slave trade?

Question

do we realy need two perment memorials to the slave trade at the museum in Docklands both will be launched on the 10TH november the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade by parliament lottery fund 506,500

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Not sure if we need two memorials. One is sufficient if you ask me.

Anything to clear the air on the issue of the Slave Trade, the profits from which were used to finance the Industrial Revolution and build the village of Blackheath here in Greenwich.

Once you start into the Slave Trade, almost everyone you believed in suddenly becomes a dark and dangerous villain. Not least Oliver Cromwell, Parliamentarian - who had two slave ships built at Deptford. He was supposed to be one of the good guys.

Likewise George Washington who had 12 black negro slaves in his house.

Damn! There is just no end to it.

And, what is even worse than any of the above, is that the slave trade is alive and well and in UK today. I have read this day of some 5,000 child sex slaves forced to work here in UK. Anyone in authority doing anything about that?

Even worse, I have read of the 25,000 children of the USA sold into slavery every year.

Of course no one wants to believe any of this. Denial. Hide under the blankets and it will all go away.

Well it won't just go away, not until we do something about it.

Answer 3

Yes we certainly do.The country has memorials for all sorts of things and the docklands played a major part in the slave trade.Many black,mixed race and white people as well as other ethnicity groups go to the museums in Liverpool to learn about the history of the slave trade and the memorials are an important part of that history.

Answer 4

Fair enough, but they should also have a memorial to all the Brits who were slaves in their own country and also all the white Europeans who were taken abroad as slaves. Those facts are very conveniently forgotten. Men were executed for taking dead wood from the forests, children of 9 and 10 years were exiled to Ausralia just for steealing a piece of bread because they were starving. It's a fact that children used to stand outside Vickers Shipbuilders in Barrow and ask the workers leaving for home if they had any bread left over because they were starving. At least the black slaves were fed while the indigenous population went hungry. When I was younger I was asked what I wanted, bread and marg or bread and jam. I couldn't have both because of food shortages......

Answer 5

I don't think so. I'm not down-playing the effect of slavery nor the injustices caused, but I do think there has been enough navel gazing about this subject already.

We have enough memorials in the country as it is, and there has to come a time when someone says enough is enough. All it takes is for some poor sole to die, and there is a statue errected, or flowers outside their house before you can blink.

Memorials should be left to events that need remembering, and as slavery is still with us, it does not qualify yet.

Answer 6

Nobody alive in Britain today has enslaved anybody yet people are demanding that we should apologise, Well this guy is not going to. I know that millions of Africans were enslaved and sent thousands of miles to be worked to death in the Americas and the West Indies and that that was unforgivable but When the descendants of the dominant tribes, their chiefs and the Arabs who who captured and then sold them into slavery recompense them, I will apologise but not before

Answer 7

isn't Barclays bank a big enough memorial to the slave trade?

Answer 8

Go to Hull, they already have some, bet they do in Liverpool as well!

Answer 9

We are the memorial to the slave trade.. it's still here with us today.. We call it "democracy"...

Answer 10

That's a very laboured question.