Merlion
03-25-2007, 05:59 AM
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the British parliamentary act that abolished the slave trade in Britain's colonies - though not slavery itself.
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Statue 'symbolizes forgiveness' (http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350394676)
The 'Reconciliation' monumentwill be dedicated on Fridayin a ceremony in Richmond
Mar 25, 2007.
Richmond's history is stained by the human trafficking that made it, America and other nations prosperous.
On Friday, a 15-foot-tall bronze "Reconciliation" statue will be unveiled in Shockoe Slip to acknowledge this painful past and to symbolize forgiveness.
"It's a monument to the whole issue of slavery and reconciliation," said City Councilwoman Delores L. McQuinn, chairwoman of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission.
The commission has coordinated Richmond's participation in the international Reconciliation Triangle Project, which includes identical statues in Liverpool, England, and Benin in West Africa by Liverpool artist Stephen Broadbent.
Depicting two people melded in an embrace, the statue is part of a $750,000 project that includes a plaza that was built at 15th and East Main streets.....
Last month, Virginia's General Assembly voted unanimously to express "profound regret" for the involuntary servitude of Africans, and called for reconciliation among all Virginians.
The reconciliation project grew out of apologies for slavery that were issued by government officials in Liverpool and Benin in 1999.
Liverpool's wealth initially grew out of a triangle of slave trade. British ships took manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves, who were carried to the Americas. Tobacco and other produce from the plantations then were delivered back to Britain.....
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the British parliamentary act that abolished the slave trade in Britain's colonies - though not slavery itself.....
The project has the potential to spark discussion, educate and help heal.
The reconciliation statue "is the first physical record of the fact that this was a place of slavery for 250 years, in fact the second largest slave market in America for about 50 years," Campbell said.
http://www.sbal.co.uk/sbal/media/images/recontriangle/liv-stat.jpg
Statue 'symbolizes forgiveness' (http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350394676)
The 'Reconciliation' monumentwill be dedicated on Fridayin a ceremony in Richmond
Mar 25, 2007.
Richmond's history is stained by the human trafficking that made it, America and other nations prosperous.
On Friday, a 15-foot-tall bronze "Reconciliation" statue will be unveiled in Shockoe Slip to acknowledge this painful past and to symbolize forgiveness.
"It's a monument to the whole issue of slavery and reconciliation," said City Councilwoman Delores L. McQuinn, chairwoman of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission.
The commission has coordinated Richmond's participation in the international Reconciliation Triangle Project, which includes identical statues in Liverpool, England, and Benin in West Africa by Liverpool artist Stephen Broadbent.
Depicting two people melded in an embrace, the statue is part of a $750,000 project that includes a plaza that was built at 15th and East Main streets.....
Last month, Virginia's General Assembly voted unanimously to express "profound regret" for the involuntary servitude of Africans, and called for reconciliation among all Virginians.
The reconciliation project grew out of apologies for slavery that were issued by government officials in Liverpool and Benin in 1999.
Liverpool's wealth initially grew out of a triangle of slave trade. British ships took manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves, who were carried to the Americas. Tobacco and other produce from the plantations then were delivered back to Britain.....
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the British parliamentary act that abolished the slave trade in Britain's colonies - though not slavery itself.....
The project has the potential to spark discussion, educate and help heal.
The reconciliation statue "is the first physical record of the fact that this was a place of slavery for 250 years, in fact the second largest slave market in America for about 50 years," Campbell said.