Durham University Graves When excavations were being made for a proposed library addition at Durham University in the United Kingdom, a surprising discovery was made: two graves containing 1,700 bodies from the 17th century. The graves had not been previously recorded, so many were scratching their heads as to the origin of the tragedy.
The graves come from a dark and bloody time in England’s history: the English Civil War. It is believed that the bodies belonged to Scottish soldiers taken captive after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. They were captured by the English revolutionary Oliver Cromwell and probably died from starvation or disease and buried in mass graves then forgotten. It is also believed that some of them might have been those killed during the Battle of Dunbar because the graves of the deceased were never actually recorded.
St. Helena Slave Graves
St. Helena is an island located in the South Atlantic between Africa and South Africa. At one time, it served as an outpost for slave traders. Any slaves who died during the crossing to the Americas were buried on St. Helena, and in 2012, their bodies were uncovered. In the 1800s, when Great Britain was trying to cease slave trading in their Caribbean colonies, the Royal Navy would take many of the slaves arriving at St. Helena and put them in colonies.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t enough and the slaves who died afterward were burned in mass graves. Around 325 of an estimated 5,000 bodies were found in the graves during the construction of a new airport being built on the island. 83 percent were young people and children.
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Poster Comment:
In the Nationalist Times forum we had a thread called "Englishness: the glory and the horror", started by guess who. Since we hear no end of the sceptred isle's glory and 4um is the great site of muckraking sites, might as well have a thread on the crimes, the brutality, the heartless exploitation and perversion.
The above ain't the greatest writing job, true. But it's a start for our newest borriblest topic.
Search CUME or CUMULATIVE when ready to add more dirt.... and have a nice day! :-)