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The African genocide on the Middle Passage
ROGER McKENZIE reflects on the enslavement, endurance and rebellion of Africans trafficked across the Atlantic and the untold sufferings of unknown ancestors
BRUTAL: Slaves above and below deck aboard the Albanoz, a captured Spanish slave ship in 1846, so the people shown had in fact been liberated though not yet landed and released.
[National Maritime Museum/Creative Commons]
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THE recent memorials to the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany as well as the way the Palestinians of Gaza have resisted attempts to wipe them out has made me think about the centuries-old attempts to eliminate Africans.
No! I do not think this is exaggerating what has happened to people of African descent during centuries of humiliation and exploitation. What happened was mass murder, torture on a mega-industrial scale and centuries of expecting people of African descent to be grateful for what we have.
Significant among the genocidal attacks on Africans was, of the course, the transatlantic slave trade which ran from the 15th to the 19th century.
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