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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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04 Aug 2006 05:55:16 AM |
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OT: Stones of shame |
Stones of shame
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7218489
Jul 27th 2006
From The Economist print edition
CAPE COAST CASTLE in Ghana was the capital of the British slave trade
in west Africa for more than a century. Some 100,000 people a year were
dragged there as transatlantic cargo. But the castle rarely appears in
standard versions of 18th-century life. William St Clair deserves some
sort of medal (Disorder of the British Empire, perhaps) for sifting
through records and ledgers, and assembling so beguiling a description
of its cruel career.
He is careful in his discussion of slavery, describing the gross
inhumanity involved, but avoiding a too rapid or too simple assignment
of blame. He tends to see the castle not as the evil child of a wicked
imperialist plot, but as the symptom of a wider failure of restraint.
It was part of a rapacious and chaotic muddle.
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