“People don’t really understand how many people lost their lives in the pursuit of freedom from empire. I don’t think people understand the brutality of colonialism. People don’t understand the generational trauma.”
Note: A graphic in the above video includes a map that should correctly read “The British Empire at its Peak.”Thanks to our sponsors:To many, her 70-year reign was a symbol of tradition and stability that linked the present to the past.
Despite that legacy, Greaves says she was surprised at how moved she was by the queen’s passing — who she calls “a pretty towering figure” — and the memories it stirred of her mother and grandmother. Greave’s mother, who immigrated to the United States in the 1960s, and grandmother both had great affection for the queen.By chance, Greaves was visiting Britain and Europe when Queen Elizabeth died and made a point of leaving a bouquet of flowers at the gates of Buckingham Palace.
“It’s impossible for me to do my work as a scholar of these kinds of modern racial inequalities in America and not see the fingerprints of British colonials everywhere,” said Tillery. “The threads are intimately connected. The American race story starts with the Royal African Company.” “It’s really not just the monarchy, people all across Britain I think have been starting to grapple with the fact that so much of the wealth of the country stems from imperialism and the slave trade,” says Sowerby.
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