Manchester-based composer creates requiem to honour enslaved Africans
David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links A centuries-old insurance document…
The Guardian reports: David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links A centuries-old insurance document detailing the trafficking of enslaved Africans began with the words: “In the name of God, Amen.”
For Dr Errol Francis, the artistic director and chief executive of the arts and heritage charity Culture&, the contradiction was striking: an invocation of God in a document that treated human beings as cargo.
This entertainment story centres on the United Kingdom. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Africans, God and David Önaç.
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