Jay Wiener<\/span> Subscribe to the Clarion Ledger<\/p>\n If you are not a subscriber, consider subscribing now. You will also get access to the Clarion Ledger’s E-Edition, the electronic replica of the print publication along with print archives. The E-edition is also available on our app.<\/p>\n USA Today Network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/media-video><\/div>\n <\/story-highlights> Southerners are painfully aware of hypocrites attempting to turn them into poster children for racism in America. The Central Park Five and George Floyd are reminders that prejudice demands scrutiny everywhere.<\/p>\n Fortunately, more people inhabiting the world today examine an inherited, regrettable past earnestly than attempt to use its universality to excuse lamentable legacies of epochs past.<\/p>\n Southerners shall feel significantly less alone after reading \u201cThe Crown\u2019s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in America.\u201d It is not a story which the royals want told, notwithstanding King Charles III\u2019s biracial grandchildren:<\/p>\n \u201cFrom Elizabeth I onward, British sovereigns sponsored and protected slaving through their control of the military. They used royal proclamations and orders in council to incentivize colonists to purchase enslaved Africans. They supported the passage of colonial slave laws defining enslaved people as property that could be bought, sold, bequeathed, inherited, collected for debts, and escheated to the Crown when enslavers died intestate\u2026.They used inter-imperial wars to increase the number of plantation territories and enslaved laborers under British control and even outright owned thousands of enslaved people in the Crown\u2019s name well into the nineteenth century.\u201d<\/p>\n The author ponders whether King Charles III will \u201cfollow his mother\u2019s example and pass the burden of silence on to future generations to carry[.] Or will Charles, speaking in concert with the British government, acknowledge and seek to redress historical injustices as a means of promoting a more equitable present?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Crown\u2019s Silence\u201d eloquently exposes a heinous history that educated individuals should comprehend and poses probing questions that are crucial in any context. Oppression and prejudice exist across the globe. Violence directed at minorities can be contemplated anywhere. The trajectory trends toward examining the unsustainable and eliminating the delusion that master races deserve dominion over anyone defined as inferior.<\/p>\n Politicians who build careers disparaging truth and reconciliation face eternal damnation for perpetuating an odious past. The pantheon has scant respect for individuals denying people\u2019s common humanity.<\/p>\n Monarchs have no less accountability than others, contemporaneously and historically. That inescapable reality makes Brooke Newman\u2019s book into a landmark.<\/p>\n The Divine Right of Kings ceased to exist generations ago. Constitutional limitations constrain monarchies. The future shall witness increasingly diminished monarchies.<\/p>\n Members depart the British Commonwealth. Nations subjugated under the yoke of colonial rule cannot respect royals seen as a continuation of subject peoples\u2019 victimization.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Crown\u2019s Silence\u201d offers a fascinating study on a multitude of levels, the commodification of people above everything else.<\/p>\n A friend conveyed her shock discovering an ancestor\u2019s inventory which listed his slaves alongside his livestock. The suggestion that slaveholders were benevolent \u2014 benefitting people possessed as property \u2014 dissembles, condoning intolerable circumstances. Wounds cannot heal until slavery and racism are acknowledged to be inexcusable wrongs.<\/p>\n European settlement of America involved the exploitation of land, minerals and commodities and of individuals deemed heathen and inhuman.<\/p>\n Relevant is the revelation that Charles III, through his maternal grandmother n\u00e9e Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, \u201cis a direct descendant of Virginia planters who exercised ownership over African men, women, and children and profited from their coerced labor.\u201d<\/p>\n The book is not specifically written for residents of states constructed on a bedrock of enslavement. It is more meaningful recognizing that the foundations of the entire socioeconomic system demand reconsideration.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Crown\u2019s Silence\u201d documents unknown details about British history, providing a starting point from which to expand one\u2019s erudition.<\/p>\n Incongruities between the past and the present are prominently displayed in Newman\u2019s work.\u00a0 It unintentionally elucidates that, had the Confederacy prevailed, fundamental assumptions were nonetheless doomed:<\/p>\n Enslavement would have ended given international inevitability. Misguided zealots can never succeed since the world cannot tolerate national aberrations.<\/p>\n \u2014 Jay Wiener is a Jackson attorney.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.clarionledger.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jay Wiener \u00a0|\u00a0 Special to the Mississippi Clarion Ledger Subscribe to the Clarion Ledger If you are not a subscriber, consider subscribing now. You will also get access to the Clarion Ledger’s E-Edition, the electronic replica of the print publication along with print archives. 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A review of \u2018The Crown\u2019s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas\u2019<\/h2>\n
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