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So see now hear (in the dark) feel"...was blind, but now I see"
John Newton : "Amazing Grace" See now hear feel Feel now, hear sea Here now feel see, now feel hear an� see in the dark (refrain) buckra...guineas dosh...massa are they who plunder an� rob any different than those who trade in human cargoes? Lock, stock an� barrel Eternal triangle retraced from Whitehaven, Liverpool, Bristol, Gloucester, Cardiff, Birmingham an� London a few prospered so cups may be filled with rhum� Raleigh ensured tobacco may smoke first in Devon Asphalt still pave roads of trade Commerce, banking and insurance established pirates, buccaneers, cow killers, privateers Slavers out to sea, religious zealots Archaic laws of eighteenth (which) century Gold, emeralds, diamonds, bauxite cocoa, guns, shackles, sugar, cotton pineapples, papayas, timber, coffee tomatoes, chocolate filthy as mined coal brandy parties, St Giles stinking drunken stupor nursing gentlemen�s trade of wretched human cargo Even locals pressed-ganged as crew Spirited chimney boys, convicts, those indebt, screaming kidnapped daughters condemned as accomplices for this trade starved on sail to gold coast Precious kidnapped cargoes albeit humans Chained afraid are some/none on atlantic separated fading memories of baobab denied rights of passage or kin beaten, shackled in irons Never to return! so accept the sacrifice of Quamina feel words of saved Rushton at this shrine... as familiar names survive, histories so entangled Global deceit, new millennia will but forced emancipation did not end chattel slavery as today showcases and brochures brag post modern conveniences dependant on supply of shackled labour in afrika, asia unto lawless jungles of americas Even in the kitchens of europe and middle east pathetic excuses of abominable existence before european�s arrival then legal, so no compensation to date benefactors pay no reparations drinking blood like milk Feel here now, see now hear feel Failed safe if only one is in captivity None is free! No dignity without equality! No humanity Without justice and liberty! roi
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 Photograph of Roi Kwabena in The Dark at Millennium Point by Lindsay Wilson. Photo courtesy of Thinktank |
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