Word: slaving
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...note the billboards for visiting superstars from South Korea, north Africa and Israel, alongside those of Bette Midler and Carrot Top). On fight night, national flags were worn as athletic costumes, though the big money men were still accompanied by towering escorts in body-tight metallic lamé and slave-ankle stilettos. Some traditions never change...
...Bersha, Egypt, they found intricate coffins embedded within each other, 55 wooden boats—each distinctly crafted and painted—and beer. Lots of beer. Scattered in disarray throughout the grave were tiny beer jars representative of their larger, real counterparts, miniature models of breweries, and wooden slave figures with the drink balanced on their heads. Apparently, eternal thirst was not an attractive option for the Ancient Egyptians...
...full fleet of funerary boats, the symbolic transportation to the afterlife, appears in the exhibition. Each small vessel is about two feet long and carries something different: transport boats have portable cabins in which Djehutynakt could sit; on a fowling boat, one slave steers, while another throws out a net to catch marsh birds...
...After a stroll along the promenade, pick an alley heading away from the water and immerse yourself in a warren of ancient caravansaries, markets and wooden balconies under which craftsmen still carve the intricate doors that are Zanzibar's signature decorative form. In the old slave market, you'll find traces of the past as well as of the surprising religious tolerance that slavery was shown: captives were flogged and paraded in the shadow of mosques, cathedrals and Hindu and Buddhist temples...
Faust: "Both yes, and no." [She delivers a speech on the benefits of the Internet and talks about superimposing maps of Africa using computers to study the slave trade. This leads to philosophizing on the information age itself...