Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb - the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world. Annina decides to advocate for this legacy, initiating a debate among the islanders - many of whom have shared ancestry with the enslaved - about how to create an appropriate memorial. Along the way, she enlists the help of African American preservationist and veteran activist Peggy King Jorde, who makes important connections in their shared history.
Buried is available with Swahili and isiZulu translated subtitles which can be applied in video settings. The synopsis is available in both languages below.
Buried: jinsi tunavyoamua kukumbuka biashara ya utumwa iliyovuka Atlantiki
Kisiwa cha mbali cha St. Helena, eneo la ng’ambo la Uingereza, linajulikana zaidi kwa kaburi la Napoleon- kivutio kikubwa zaidi cha watalii katika kisiwa hicho. Hata hivyo, huku akisimamia ujenzi wa uwanja wa ndege uliokuwa ukingojewa kwa muda mrefu katika kisiwa hicho, Annina van Neel anagundua kwamba mabaki ya miili ya maelfu ya Waafrika waliokuwa watumwa zamani yamepatikana, na kugundua mojawapo ya alama muhimu zaidi za biashara ya utumwa iliyovuka Atlantiki duniani. Annina anajaribu kuwashawishi wakazi wa kisiwa hicho (wengi wao wakiwa na mababu sawa na watumwa hao) kuheshimu urithi wao na kuunda kumbukumbu inayofaa. Hayo yakijiri, anaomba usaidizi wa mhifadhi na mwanaharakati mkongwe wa Kiafrika Peggy King Jorde, ambaye hufanya miunganisho muhimu katika historia yao iliyoshirikiwa.
Ukungcwatshwa: indlela esikhetha ukukukhumbula ngayo ukuthengiswa kwezigqila olwandle lwase-Atlantic
Isiqhingi esikude sase-St. Helena, indawo yaseBrithani yaphesheya kwezilwandle, saziwa kakhulu ngethuna likaNapoleon - eliyindawo eheha kakhulu izivakashi kulesi siqhingi. Kodwa, ngenkathi engamele ukwakhiwa kwesikhumulo sezindiza okwase kuyisikhathi eside silindelwe esiqhingini, u-Annina van Neel wezwa ukuthi kwakutholwe izinkulungwane zemizimba yabantu base-Afrika ababeyizigqila, okwembula umkhondo obaluleke kakhulu emhlabeni wokuthengiswa kwezigqila olwandle lwase-Atlantic. U-Annina uzama ukusiza abantu bakulesi siqhingi (iningi labo eliyizizukulwane zalezo zigqila) ukuba bahloniphe umlando, benze nesikhumbuzo esifanele. Kule mizamo yakhe, ucela usizo lwabalwela ukulondolozwa komlando waBantu Abamnyama BaseMelika kanye nolwesishoshovu esingumakadebona uPeggy King Jorde, ongumxhumanisi okubalulekile emlandweni wabo.
#Buried #SlaveTrade #GuardianDocumentary

Пікірлер: 78

  • @jenitreves4706
    @jenitreves4706Ай бұрын

    A really important film, and as this shortened version shows, an extremely moving story following Anina and her discovery of the most horrendous colonial history. The full version "A Story Of Bones" will be shown soon on stream. It was shown at Tribeca, Berlin, The Barbican,and many other venues . Thankyou Anina, and Joe and Dominic.

  • @josesantyjunior4708
    @josesantyjunior4708Ай бұрын

    Remembrance, humanity, respect. Nations can have their favourite part in history but no right to erase the ones they feel ashame of. Otherwise we will never learn.

  • @mrsapplez2007
    @mrsapplez2007Ай бұрын

    What she thought was a local struggle.....is a global one🙏🏾

  • @Mimi-ht6xr

    @Mimi-ht6xr

    Ай бұрын

    It’s only for those folks not living in the present. I’m too busy enjoying this life to care about anything that happened hundreds of years ago. JEEZ!!!!!

  • @simontreves
    @simontrevesАй бұрын

    A lot of this footage comes from A Story of Bones, a documentary by Joseph Curran and Dominic Aubrey de Vere that premiered at the Tribeca film festival (where it was nominated for Best Documentary), and was scheduled to appear in the BBC's Storyville strand before being mysteriously withdrawn. Credit where credit's due.

  • @Biobele

    @Biobele

    Ай бұрын

    What award did the documentary win?

  • @simontreves

    @simontreves

    Ай бұрын

    @@Biobele My mistake: it was shortlisted at Tribeca for Best Documentary.

  • @justbe1451
    @justbe1451Ай бұрын

    Oh i cried! This video shook my soul, through my tears I'm thankful to learn this history. ❤

  • @annodominimag481
    @annodominimag481Ай бұрын

    memorlization is so critical to the work of justice and cultural restitution - these conversations are a crucial strategy to help us deal with our past and create a more just future - bravo to the production team

  • @lungamadoda6992
    @lungamadoda6992Ай бұрын

    I love St Helena but I’m an African ❤ this was a powerful Documentary love from your sister in South Africa and may we not forget our brothers who were buried in St Helena 💐

  • @Tiffany1989
    @Tiffany1989Ай бұрын

    This was incredible! 👏🏿😍. Asé

  • @millionairemaine8901
    @millionairemaine8901Ай бұрын

    This is VERY interesting. I learned a lot in this half an hour.

  • @DearProfessorRF
    @DearProfessorRFАй бұрын

    Excellent for documentary. Really.

  • @aimajeffresswood8702
    @aimajeffresswood8702Ай бұрын

    DEAR Maidens of Light And Stories of a certain past. Your courage Is Noted. Blessings, 💚💯🌹🌠

  • @pieterwolt1245
    @pieterwolt124518 күн бұрын

    wow a powerful story, thanks

  • @wizardofoz1390
    @wizardofoz1390Ай бұрын

    Superb journalism

  • @clinkedylinkedy1
    @clinkedylinkedy1Ай бұрын

    wow how incredible! amazing to see what work those two will accomplish together as they are both powerful people. may the 325 find peace and the remaining thousands attain justice and peace as well. as much as it wasn't that long ago for the descendants of those buried there, it also wasn't that long for the descendants of those who caused that harm and it's a shame that we as people are still taking so long to heal these wounds. thank you for this film.

  • @shubhankartripathi1143
    @shubhankartripathi1143Ай бұрын

    Remembering your history and honouring it should be in every part of society.

  • @bernardmanners9657
    @bernardmanners9657Ай бұрын

    I feel her frustration but love her passion

  • @pcoristi
    @pcoristiАй бұрын

    So many uncomfortable with the realities of colonialism.

  • Ай бұрын

    They SIMPLY do not care...examine history.

  • @paulines581
    @paulines581Ай бұрын

    Very interesting. Thank you very much. Dr Sheila S Walker's and some of Coco Fusco's work also comes to mind here too for me.

  • @diniethomas1611
    @diniethomas1611Ай бұрын

    Thank You!

  • @NeilHadynNicholson
    @NeilHadynNicholsonАй бұрын

    I can only imagine how many grave site of enslaved people have been desecrated all over the world. Records never kept or the ones kept were ignored because black Africans were and still are not considered humans worthy of acknowledgement, respect, care and compassion for the dead and the living. I'm happy that this site was discovered and re-recorded. This was very emotional for me to watch. Thank you for producing such a great documentary. ♥🥲

  • @redf7209

    @redf7209

    Ай бұрын

    Africans have never bothered about their dead culturally until the west introduced memorialisation

  • @NeilHadynNicholson

    @NeilHadynNicholson

    Ай бұрын

    @@redf7209really, you ever heard of mummies.

  • @eastafrika728
    @eastafrika728Ай бұрын

    500 years of brutalizing and murdering hundreds of millions can never be forgotten here in Afrika

  • @DrTadStoermer

    @DrTadStoermer

    Ай бұрын

    But there is an entire heritage industry in the United States that is hard at work minimizing the horror and brutality so that modern Americans can comfortably ignore its living consequences.

  • @redf7209

    @redf7209

    Ай бұрын

    It goes further back than that. African tribes have been murdering and committing genocide and enslaving neighbouring tribes and villages as far back as history can show.

  • @narratingwithtuwilika
    @narratingwithtuwilikaАй бұрын

    Heartbreaking, but Support from Namibia.

  • @NYCNegress
    @NYCNegressАй бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @jtouros
    @jtourosАй бұрын

    You are such a brave woman Annina,I'm so proud of you❤

  • @franciscophile6281
    @franciscophile6281Ай бұрын

    I watched this video a couple weeks ago. I left for those two weeks and finally looked at my Y-DNA results and realized that I had matches buried in Charleston, South Carolina at the Anson Street Project.

  • @BabaEsconoir
    @BabaEsconoirАй бұрын

    Almost everytime there is an important fight we don't get to see it through till the end.

  • @mpinganadax3923
    @mpinganadax3923Ай бұрын

    I wouldn't be surprised if some of those enslaved africans were Angolans. Those yellow beads look like the traditional beads of the mumuhuila tribe

  • @lungamadoda6992

    @lungamadoda6992

    Ай бұрын

    Could be true considering the location too , the people were being shipped to Brazil 🇧🇷

  • @davidbell3001

    @davidbell3001

    Ай бұрын

    Connecting the dots with Angola... thats why this whole thing is huge...

  • @christset
    @christsetАй бұрын

    Geeze look at Nigerian Calabar state which still exsist in my country to this day on the plaque. Times stamp - 2;34.

  • @labelle8110
    @labelle8110Ай бұрын

    ☝🏿💕🇭🇹

  • @Oharadanny123abcdefg
    @Oharadanny123abcdefgАй бұрын

    Is Van Neel white ?

  • @HondaCivicUK
    @HondaCivicUKАй бұрын

    REPARATIONS is long overdue RESTORATION & RESTITUTION NOW

  • @ReshonBryant
    @ReshonBryantАй бұрын

    👉🏽🧔🏽‍♀️ 🛋️

  • @patricemitchell1
    @patricemitchell1Ай бұрын

    Do the West Africans not think of this?shouldn’t they about this and get involved?

  • @Kwabenata.Etu0hene

    @Kwabenata.Etu0hene

    Ай бұрын

    For some reason, they don’t understand that it was actually their ancestors who were sold into slavery.

  • @Kwabenata.Etu0hene

    @Kwabenata.Etu0hene

    Ай бұрын

    All the African Kingdoms that sold slaves are no longer in existence. The modern nations that exist in Africa today are not even 80 years old. So, there are no nations available to pay reparations in Africa.

  • @thiernosow11

    @thiernosow11

    Ай бұрын

    why do you people love to repeat white supremacists talking points, that has been debunked time and time again, nobody sold their own brothers and sisters

  • @LilliLamour

    @LilliLamour

    Ай бұрын

    ​@contribution741 Very few sold other Africans. Lets also remember African slaves to other Africans were servants and were able to go home at the end of the day. Most Africans were kidnapped by Europeans.

  • @marriot6491

    @marriot6491

    Ай бұрын

    We have decided not to confront our history. School systems still teach colonial mumbo jumbo. A complete Abdication of responsibility.

  • @Bushido2083
    @Bushido2083Ай бұрын

    The true Hebrews are rising repent and follow the MessYah Yahushua!

  • @Howardstwein912
    @Howardstwein912Ай бұрын

    the guardian dont really care

  • @billybatts8283
    @billybatts828329 күн бұрын

    Great Britain was the first civilisation in existence to end slavery. Then got others to do so. You're welcome and we should be compensated for it.

  • @levystein666
    @levystein666Ай бұрын

    Ironic, the small hat tribes were the biggest merchants and profiteers 😂

  • @Tefera-hf8fw

    @Tefera-hf8fw

    Ай бұрын

    ??

  • @MrConan89
    @MrConan89Ай бұрын

    How about something on the enslavement of Britons by the Romans?

  • @wendiedwards463

    @wendiedwards463

    Ай бұрын

    Why don't you make a documentary about it?

  • @Pou1gie1

    @Pou1gie1

    Ай бұрын

    Then use KZread's search engine and go to that video, and stay off this one. You don't have to be here.

  • @r-cdmx

    @r-cdmx

    Ай бұрын

    I don’t recall exhibitions of this history at the lootville British Museum.

  • @sayitloudblcknproud

    @sayitloudblcknproud

    Ай бұрын

    This channel is interested in the history of enslaved Africans, like the majority of the world. What happened to Africans is deeply profound. Maybe make a video and teach us on the Brits and Romans. How many Britons were slaves? When and where? How were they treated? Were they forced to give birth to future slaves for hundreds of years? Branded? Lynched? I’d really like to learn more.

  • @richardduplessis1090
    @richardduplessis1090Ай бұрын

    Commemorations of the achievements of the heroes of the white race in their homelands are also being erased. Let us not forget that. It is outrageously insulting and absurd.

  • @josh_harrison

    @josh_harrison

    Ай бұрын

    where are these book burnings happening?

  • @OsheyBaddest

    @OsheyBaddest

    Ай бұрын

    Heroes? How can the devil be a hero.

  • @richardduplessis1090

    @richardduplessis1090

    Ай бұрын

    @@OsheyBaddest The Heroes of the White Race are: Explorers, Scientists, Writers, Politicians, Architexts, Doctors, Inventors. What "Devil" are you talking about?

  • @zenheadshot3742

    @zenheadshot3742

    Ай бұрын

    You crying? Aww.. You're crying

  • @ftftyffghfvghfcht6701

    @ftftyffghfvghfcht6701

    Ай бұрын

    @@OsheyBaddest ah moralism, where you refer to an ethnicity as 'the devil'

  • @user-qf3tz7fr1g
    @user-qf3tz7fr1g21 күн бұрын

    thank you fo diz, the guardian. 💎🌟💯 jellybean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ermahgerd. i totally wrote da title wrong. mah bad. mah mistake. ✌️😅😘 anyhoo: 'a key link between our present and our past' keep tellin' der stories. let der stories stay alive. make der stories unforgettable. thank you, kween annina. muchmuchMUCH love to st. helena. 🤍🥰🤌🌺❌⭕💚