"Marker" images for Slave Profiles.

Started by June Barnes on Sunday, February 5, 2012

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Today at 6:16 AM

Would there be any objection to Slave profiles carrying images such as those used on Domingo van Malabar and Truij?

If there is can we have suggestions on how to mark them - I have been adding Curator notes, but perhaps a suffix in the same way as we use SV/PROG and SM?PROG?

Today at 9:43 AM

June

I personally do not have any problem with the markers depicted.

Sensitivities could however arise from descendants who may be taken aback to stumble upon their ancestral lines, but nevertheless one's forebears cannot be altered.

I would however strongly resist any image depicting a slave in shackles as that may not be as tasteful as the symbols you suggest.

Having expressed this opinion, I feel I am entitled to do so, as in my ancestral Kannemeyer line there are many examples.

Regards

John Sparkman

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