Forensics of Capital by Michael Ralph

Author:Michael Ralph [Ralph, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226198606
Google: kr6xCQAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-07-08T04:10:52+00:00

Beginning sometime around 11:45 a.m., the US commander-in-chief immediately situated his remarks in the context of transatlantic slavery:

For hundreds of years on this island, peoples of different continents met in fear and cruelty. Today we gather in respect and friendship, mindful of past wrongs and dedicated to the advance of human liberty.

At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold. Human beings were delivered and sorted, and weighed, and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises, and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return. One of the largest migrations in history was also one of the greatest crimes of history.

Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea. Some refused to eat, preferring death to any future their captors might prepare for them. Some who were sick were thrown over the side. Some rose up in violent rebellion, delivering the closest thing to justice on a slave ship. Many acts of defiance and bravery are recorded. Countless others, we will never know.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.