Thanks, for the compliment on the poem.
Yes, although I come from Irish ancestry who were poor as muck and had not from a rich family that would have been the orchestrators and profiteers of slavery... the Irish came to Liverpool for jobs. And although they were treated as second-class citizens a lot of the jobs they did will have facilitated the slave trade.
It is impossible to know apart from on my father's side as his family are from Cork and never moved to Liverpool. I don't know what my great, great grandparents on my mother's side did. So for me, I own the dark past of Liverpool by telling the truth that some of the graves in that quaint-looking small baptist church were 'kings of slavery'.
The church curator didn't like it at first until she thought about it and wrote me an email saying that she admired my honesty, and after researching it herself had found out I was quite right and why should we try to cover up such truths... they should be brought into the light. So that they can never again happen.
Absolutely, unless we are prepared to face up to the truths of the past, no matter how difficult that may be, we can never truly move forward as a single human race. !LUV
@samsmith1971(3/5) gave you LUV.
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