Lest We Forget: The Middle Passage
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A scarlet oak planted on the capitol grounds to commemorate the Africans who died in the Middle Passage.
Waymark Code: WM7NCT
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2009
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Lest We Forget: The Middle Passage C. 1444-1860
Let this scarlet oak represent the strength and resilience of the people of African decent, and commemorate the Africans who died on the Middle Passage, the leg of the Atlantic Triangle in which upwards of 100 million Africans were transported as human cargo from the continent of Africa to the Americas. Estimates of one third to one half of those captured to be enslaved in the Americas died on the slave ships. The deathes were due to the inhumane way the Africans were treated, chained together skin-to-skin, no room to move, in the bowels of slave ships, where pestilence ran rampant, and due to ongoing resistance. African-Americans living and working as productive citizens in the U.S. represent/honor Africans who survived the deadly voyage. Those stolen from their homelands only to lose their lives in what is known as the Maafa deserve to be remembered, so that no atrocity like it occurs again in human history.
Governor Don Sundquist July 1999 TN Legislative Black Caucus
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