Underwater sculpture honouring Africans thrown overboard from the slave ships during the Middle Passage of the African Holocaust.
This is located in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Grenada under water.
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade . African captives were thrown overboard and drowned because if they had died on board, the crew could not claim insurance money on the lost cargo.
summer holiday
frolicking
in the caribbean
unaware that
the sea
holds shameful secrets
a graveyard for slaves
excess baggage tossed overboard
the black holocaust buried
forgotten for centuries
reparations ?
a ship sailing over the horizon
out of sight
out of mind
Wednesday Scribblings -Poets United
Your words are real, accurate, insightful, and devastating. We're all keenly aware of the injustice, and yet that's the long and the short of it.
ReplyDeleteSobering!
ReplyDeleteEvocative. Who knows what else may be found under the sea!
ReplyDeleteI am sad that I didn't know about this sculpture. There are many injustices that we bury or ignore, and I am guilty, too, for ignoring the plight of others.
ReplyDeleteAnother view. Wonderful writing, Rall.
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