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RSS FeedsBones of freed slaves `haunt` St. Helena island
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25 november 2017 04:39:19

 
Bones of freed slaves `haunt` St. Helena island
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The only pointer of what lies inside the stone storehouse within the grounds of the prison is a printed note pasted to an old grey door. `This is to mark the temporary resting place of 325 liberated African slaves brought to St. Helena against their will. They now wait in this room for their final resting place,` it reads. Candles and a bouquet of wilting white arum lilies sit in front of the wooden door on the remote British island of St. Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. Nine years ago, the skeletons of the former slaves were discovered during the construction of the island`s first airport. Since then the remains have been kept in cardboard boxes in the prison storehouse. Every Sunday, Annina Van Neel Hayes, 30, an environmentalist born in Namibia, pays homage to the forgotten dead by laying flowers in front of the padlocked door. It was she and her friends who put up the epitaph.


 
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