Reconciliation triangle.PEOPLE REPRESENTING the three corners of the Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the Transatlantic slave trade, was the trade of African persons supplied to the colonies of the "New World" that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th century to the 19th century. triangle gathered recently on the dockside in Liverpool Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical , where many of the slave ships were built. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Frank Roderick, presented reconciliation sculptures to an official delegation from Benin, led by the Minister for Housing, Urbanism and Environment, and Tee Turner, a representative of the city of Richmond, Virginia Richmond IPA: [ɹɯʒmɐnɖ] is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. , in the US. Designed by Liverpool artist Stephen Broadbent together with school students, the sculptures--which will stand in Liverpool, Benin and Richmond--include the words: 'Acknowledge and forgive the past. Embrace the present. Shape a future of reconciliation and justice.'The Leader of Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. It consists of 90 councillors, three for each of the city's 30 wards. , Mike Storey, said that when, as its final act of the last millennium, the city had apologized for its role in the slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan , this had been 'linked to a commitment to policies that would end racism and exclusion in the city and society as a whole'. There are plans for a sustained programme of exchanges and educational initiatives between the three points of the renamed 'reconciliation triangle'. |
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