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It does not seem to occur to those who go along with the notions of weeding out memorials to persons of whom they disapprove, that a decorative monument, with pretty colouring and detail, and an inscription in Latin which does not refer in any way to slavery, could hardly cause discomfort to anybody without deliberate inquisitorial probings by those actually wanting to discover artefacts about which they could take exception. As most people nowadays, thanks to ever-narrowing and dumbed-down “education”, cannot read Latin, it is extremely doubtful if anyone would have connected the Falmouth memorial with anything at all until its associations had been deliberately sought out by those determined to find something “offensive”.
However, it should be remembered that the Trade could not have existed unless the African Chiefs sold their people to Arab middle-men, who then passed on the “merchandise” to European shippers for export to the Caribbean and the American Colonies. Those facts, of course, are very much played down in contemporary discourse.
There has been much talk of “reparations” for the undoubted wrongs of the slave-trade, but where would such payments end up? With the descendants of the Chieftains who originally sold their people into Slavery? With the descendants of the Arab Traders for Loss of Income? These are serious questions: I do not detect any movement from the successor-states of the Ottoman Empire to make “reparations” to the families deprived of their young men and women abducted by Barbary pirates from round the shores of the British Isles (or Atlantic Archipelago, to give them their more p-c label): blonde girls were in especial demand (no need to wonder why). The Romans, too, prized German and English slaves, but there does not appear to be much enthusiasm among Italian politicians to make huge “reparations” to Berlin or London. Dublin had once one of the largest slave-markets in Western Europe: as far as I know, the Dáil Éireann is not pursuing any “reparations” agenda in respect of any nation or group today. It should be recalled that Patricius, later Apostle of Ireland (c.387-465, or, possibly, c.420-90), was Romano-British by birth (though some authorities claim he was from Gaul), but was captured by Irish pirates and spent six years as a slave in Ireland until he escaped and left the country, to return later as a missionary. Slaves were a huge part of Viking economy, yet there seems to be little of no activity in Scandinavian countries to pay “reparations” to Ireland, England, or anywhere else. It is an historical fact that slavery was usual among a great many societies and cultures, and was regarded as perfectly normal in the past. It has certainly continued today in several parts of the world.
It does not seem to occur to those who go along with the notions of weeding out memorials to persons of whom they disapprove, that a decorative monument, with pretty colouring and detail, and an inscription in Latin which does not refer in any way to slavery, could hardly cause discomfort to anybody without deliberate inquisitorial probings by those actually wanting to discover artefacts about which they could take exception. As most people nowadays, thanks to ever-narrowing and dumbed-down “education”, cannot read Latin, it is extremely doubtful if anyone would have connected the Falmouth memorial with anything at all until its associations had been deliberately sought out by those determined to find something “offensive”.
However, it should be remembered that the Trade could not have existed unless the African Chiefs sold their people to Arab middle-men, who then passed on the “merchandise” to European shippers for export to the Caribbean and the American Colonies. Those facts, of course, are very much played down in contemporary discourse.
There has been much talk of “reparations” for the undoubted wrongs of the slave-trade, but where would such payments end up? With the descendants of the Chieftains who originally sold their people into Slavery? With the descendants of the Arab Traders for Loss of Income? These are serious questions: I do not detect any movement from the successor-states of the Ottoman Empire to make “reparations” to the families deprived of their young men and women abducted by Barbary pirates from round the shores of the British Isles (or Atlantic Archipelago, to give them their more p-c label): blonde girls were in especial demand (no need to wonder why). The Romans, too, prized German and English slaves, but there does not appear to be much enthusiasm among Italian politicians to make huge “reparations” to Berlin or London. Dublin had once one of the largest slave-markets in Western Europe: as far as I know, the Dáil Éireann is not pursuing any “reparations” agenda in respect of any nation or group today. It should be recalled that Patricius, later Apostle of Ireland (c.387-465, or, possibly, c.420-90), was Romano-British by birth (though some authorities claim he was from Gaul), but was captured by Irish pirates and spent six years as a slave in Ireland until he escaped and left the country, to return later as a missionary. Slaves were a huge part of Viking economy, yet there seems to be little of no activity in Scandinavian countries to pay “reparations” to Ireland, England, or anywhere else. It is an historical fact that slavery was usual among a great many societies and cultures, and was regarded as perfectly normal in the past. It has certainly continued today in several parts of the world.