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From: "Kammie" <>
Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] Website on Cape Slavery : "Born to Carry the Burden' heritage project of Western Cape provincial museum services
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:26:03 +0200

Western Cape provincial museum services project : "Born to carry the
burden"-Slave history in the Western Cape

Slavery is present in the history of most civilizations - Greece, Egypt,
Europe, the Americas - and in our own continent of Africa. In broad terms,
it is a universal phenomenon.

In Africa, slavery was justifed on the basis of racial superiority.
Cultural imperialism and spiritual denigration reduced human life to the
level of merchandise - products of economic exchange. The growth of a slave
society during the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries at the Cape is a
significant social and economic chapter in the history of South Africa. The
under-development and marginalisation of indigenous culture has maintained a
conspiracy of ignorance because slave history was always approached with
moral and intellectual caution.

Acknowledging the fact that the fight for remembrance is also a fight for
human rights, the Museum Service launched a travelling exhibition, "Born to
carry the burden", in January 2001.

Travelling programme:

24 January 2001:
Launched at Elsenburg College, Stellenbosch

February 2001:
Bartolomeu Dias Museum, George


Recommended website :
http://www.westerncape.gov.za/culture_sport/cultural_affairs/museum_services
/projects/born_to_carry_the_burden.asp

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