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This model is cool, but also clinical: if you're interested in understanding what it was like to be an African kidnapped and sold via the Atlantic slave trade, consider reading Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon[1] or Aley Haley's Roots[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_La... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American...
What does being sensitive to issues about slavery mean? Is it historical accurate or not? There should be no positivity. Only accuracy. It's not like anyone truly imagines these days that any slavery from any time period was a summer camp get-away. If someone can't handle the historical reality, don't read about it to begin with. Bad things happened in the past. Get over it, but learn from it so we don't make the same mistakes. Putting your head in the sand doesn't change it. What's next, concentration camps will be downgraded to just weight loss centers because people's sensitivities can't handle "people were tortured and died in these places".
" "We designed the model to be sensitive to the numerous issues of representing the slave trade,” added Dr. Radburn. “The feedback we’ve received so far has been very positive. " What does being sensitive to issues about slavery mean? Is it historical accurate or not? There should be no positivity. Only accuracy. It's not like anyone truly imagines these days that any slavery from any time period was a summer camp ge…
" "We designed the model to be sensitive to the numerous issues of representing the slave trade,” added Dr. Radburn. “The feedback we’ve received so far has been very positive. " What does being sensitive to issues about slavery mean? Is it historical accurate or not? There should be no positivity. Only accuracy. It's not like anyone truly imagines these days that any slavery from any time period was a summer camp ge…
" "We designed the model to be sensitive to the numerous issues of representing the slave trade,” added Dr. Radburn. “The feedback we’ve received so far has been very positive. " What does being sensitive to issues about slavery mean? Is it historical accurate or not? There should be no positivity. Only accuracy. It's not like anyone truly imagines these days that any slavery from any time period was a summer camp ge…
" "We designed the model to be sensitive to the numerous issues of representing the slave trade,” added Dr. Radburn. “The feedback we’ve received so far has been very positive. " What does being sensitive to issues about slavery mean? Is it historical accurate or not? There should be no positivity. Only accuracy. It's not like anyone truly imagines these days that any slavery from any time period was a summer camp ge…
I think you're reading a little too much into the word "sensitive". Nothing in the article suggests the historian is trying to whitewash or downplay the horrors of slavery.
I know people often criticize topics that surface anything remotely concerning race, as there is a “race to the bottom”, but I often find that I learn a lot just by the fact-checking that it spawns.
To that end, one reference that I didn’t know coming in is “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660”, for the degree to which Trans Atlantic slave trade re-shaped Central African society. Secondly, a book I read a year or so ago Ibrahim Kendi’s “Stamped From The Beginning” which discusses how exponential profits reaped by the trans-Atlantic and inter-America slave trade — unprecedented in the human practice of enslavement — spawned racist hierarchies that persist now.
I couldn't imagine the heat dang, smells, damn Screenshot from video https://i.imgur.com/9dooh8v.png
> Between 1500 and 1867, some 40,000 voyages carried 12.5 million Africans to the Americas, where they were sold into slavery. As far as I'm aware, the majority were sold into slavery in Africa , and then resold elsewhere. (making the distinction because it's important to why there are still open slave markets in parts of Africa)
It goes back to Roman times too, throughout the region, and widespread. The Mamluk armies were entirely non-muslim slave armies, mainly of European origin, and persisted for a thousand years until the arrival of Napoleon. Historically it was deeply entwined in the culture. The first encounter for much of Europe with African slavery were the millions of Europeans who found themselves sold to the African and Arabic sla…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
I'm a little disappointed that they had to make a video in order for people to view the 3D model on the web. The model itself should be viewable in a browser, just like an image, a sound or a video. This is exactly the sort of thing that glTF was designed for, so maybe one day that will be a reality.
And even if the hardware and browser offer proper WebGL support, it might occur that the drivers are black listed, thus making any proper use of WebGL unbewarable.
Such is the WebGL reality, where devices with native support for OpenGL ES 3.2, might still struggle to see a WebGL 2.0 scene.
With a video everyone gets to enjoy it.