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Oct 10, 2009 News
Africans in Guyana will on Monday mark another anniversary of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade which resulted in the deaths of millions.
“Their bones are at the bottom of the sea,” said Norma Clark yesterday. She is an executive member of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) which has been observing the anniversary of the African Holocaust for years now.
As is customary, this year’s activity will be held at the seawall bandstand, and will feature a special programme to remember those whose bodies were dumped unceremoniously overboard during the journey across the Atlantic.
Clark said that at high tide, roses will be thrown out to sea, so it could be taken out to honour those whose lives were snuffed out due to the slave trade.
The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, involved the trading primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World. It lasted from the 16th Century to the 19th Century. Most enslaved people were shipped from West Africa and Central Africa and taken to North and South America to work as unpaid labourers on sugar, coffee, cocoa and cotton plantations, in gold and silver mines, in rice fields, or in houses to work as servants.
The transatlantic slave trade resulted in a vast and as yet still unknown loss of life for African captives both in and outside of America.
Approximately eight million Africans were killed during their storage, shipment and initial landing in the New World. The number of lives lost in the actual procurement of slaves remains a mystery but may equal or exceed the number actually enslaved.
These figures would indicate the total number of deaths at around 16 million.
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