{"id":958,"date":"2019-02-05T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/?p=958"},"modified":"2019-04-04T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T19:25:41","slug":"slavery-and-slave-trade-a-forgotten-dark-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Slavery and slave trade: A forgotten dark history"},"content":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/thelasource.com\/en\/2019\/02\/04\/slavery-and-slave-trade-a-forgotten-dark-history\/<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
I<\/span>n addition to the three historic locations, seen in the previous edition of The Source Newspaper, the slaves\u2019 auction place, the slaves\u2019 chamber, and the slaves\u2019 lashing ceremony, Zanzibar has kept the house of the last slaves\u2019 merchant along with his tomb as part of the cultural historic tour. Being currently in renovation, we could not have a tour of the house which seems to be one of the tallest houses in Zanzibar, but the merchant\u2019s grave was next to his house. In order to keep alive the memory of the merchant, residents of Zanzibar turned his tomb into a trash corner. Thus, by the merchant\u2019s tomb stood piles of trash.\"\"<\/p>\n
N<\/span>ow what is unique about this part of history is its complete absence in all other places I have thus far visited. Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East and the North African all were heavily involved in the slaves\u2019 trade for several centuries. However, no historic site similar to the one in Zanzibar seems to have been kept or constructed to commemorate that dark part of human history. A question to which the answer may not be that simple. Each country has been busy celebrating its own historic war heroes, politicians, innovators, and at times academics, but the slaves\u2019 trade along with its history will apparently remain lost in history.\"\"<\/p>\n
T<\/span>he lesson is monumental. Why shying away from acknowledging malpractice, inhumane and extremely irrational behavior, enslaving other humans and declaring one\u2019s\u2019 superiority?<\/p>\n
A<\/span>t the center of the slaves\u2019 historic monuments, residents of Zanzibar built a small Peace Pole on which one reads \u2018May Peace Prevail on Earth\u2019, a call for peace in such languages as English, Arabic, and Swahili.<\/p>\n
M<\/span>ay Peace Prevail on Earth<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
D<\/span>r.\u00a0Maher Bahloul\u00a0<\/span>holds a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University. He was recently a Visiting Professor at UBC and he is an Associate Professor at the American University of Sharjah where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses within the Department of English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/thelasource.com\/en\/2019\/02\/04\/slavery-and-slave-trade-a-forgotten-dark-history\/ In addition to the three historic locations, seen in the previous edition of The Source Newspaper, the slaves\u2019 auction place, the slaves\u2019 chamber, and the slaves\u2019 lashing ceremony, Zanzibar has kept the house of the last slaves\u2019 merchant along with his tomb as part of the cultural historic tour. Being currently in renovation, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-print-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maherbahloul.com\/mb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}